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This may be a naive question.  I'm confused about the workings of
outlets in interface builder. I understand what outlets are supposed
to do -- provide access to instances of other objects, but I'm 
confused how Interface Builder accomplishes this.

So if I have a interface definition to myobject

@interface myobject:Object
{
    id  outlet1;
    id  outlet2;
}
...
@end

I use IB to set outlet1 and outlet2 to some object instances in my 
application. Later when I invoke the app and send a message to 
myobject, outlet1 and outlet2 properly have object instances assigned 
to them.

How does the startup code gain access to what I believe are private 
variables in myobject to initialize them properly?  What syntax would 
I use if I were to try to do this manually?  


Maybe I'm off with some of my assumptions on how ObjectiveC works.  
In any case I'd appreciate if someone could enlighten me.

Thanks,

-- eric


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