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Getting ids of Outlets of an object

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From: Vikram Duvvoori
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:39
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Hi, 
	We are interested in developing some general tools that can  
dynamically access the various outlets of instances of other objects at  
run-time.
	For example, let Object1 have outlets a, b, c that are tagged 1, 2,  
and 3 and Object2 have outlets d,e that are tagged 4, 5. Given instances of  
Object1 and Object2 at run-time, what support is available in objective-C or  
Appkit, to determine the tags for the outlets of the instance variables. Are  
there any methods that give you information on the instance variables and list  
of methods for an object?
	We have attempted approaches using programmer stored lists of outlets  
(have a list of outlet names "a","b","c" for Object1 and "d","e" for Object2  
and process these lists for accessing tags). This has the problem of  
maintaining the correctness of these lists. Is there any smarter way of doing  
this? We  could probably parse the .h file for getting static information, but  
how about dynamically loaded objects? 

We have already searched through Digital Librarian and archives of CSNP.
Any ideas or pointers are welcome.

--Vikram
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Vikram Duvvoori                    vikram@viman.com
Viman Software                     800-827-4590 (Toll Free)
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Vikram Duvvoori                    vikram@viman.com
Viman Software                     800-827-4590 (Toll Free)
Registered NeXT Developers         408-459-0678  
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From: vikram@viman.com  (Vikram Duvvoori)
Subject: Getting ids of Outlets of an object
Message-ID: <1992Jul28.053907.9425@viman.com>
Keywords: outlets, object
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:39:07 GMT
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