Question

I’m sure this is a very basic procedure, so excuse this newbie question.

How would I initialize several objects, with the same code, but each with a unique name? I can make a string to represent theName, but how would I apply that as the actual objects name? Can I rename the object?

BTW the purpose is so that I can perform operations on each object referring to them by name, at a later time… I think that unique names would be a solution to this issue…

    NSString *theName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"textView%d",tvNum];

    tvNum ++;

    UITextView *myTextView = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(self.view.bounds.size.width /2, self.view.bounds.size.height /2, 100, 100)];
    [self.view addSubview:myTextView];
    NSString *theText = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"string"];
    [myTextView setText:theText];

Answer 1

You can add tags to your controller later to refer it.

myTextView.tag = somePreCalculatedTagValue;

and later by matching that tag value with controller you can do what you want

if(myTextView.tag == kTagForFirstTextView)
{
//do something
}