What exactly does the File’s Owner and First Responder Placeholder in Xcode represent?
What exactly does the File’s Owner and First Responder Placeholder in Xcode represent?
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What exactly does the File’s Owner and First Responder Placeholder in Xcode represent?
Files Owner and First Responder are proxies for objects that will exist at runtime. Specifically, Files Owner represents the object which will be passed in for owner in the method [NSBundle loadNibNamed: owner]. You can specify, via the Attributes Info Panel, what kind of object owner will be.
Once you’ve indicated what Files Owner is, you can make connections to it.
First Responder is your portal to the Responder Chain. You can add Actions to First Responder in the “Classes” tab of the document window. Next, connect buttons and menu items to First Responder so that they call the desired action. The first object in the responder chain that understands this action will be called.
See the Cocoa documentation for more information about how the responder chain works.