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Re: 3.0 IB question

#971
From: Charles G. Bennett
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:14
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In article <1992Sep9.184036.2210@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>  
quarrie@cds001.cebaf.gov (David Quarrie) writes:
> --
> In article <1992Sep8.143101.6957@pencom.com>, dudney@broadway (William
> "Bill" A. Dudney) writes:
> |>From: dudney@broadway (William "Bill" A. Dudney)
> |>Subject: 3.0 IB question
> |>Date: 8 Sep 92 14:31:01 GMT
> |>Organization: Pencom Software
> 	[....]
> |>In IB under 2.x we could sellect an object and hit Command-5 to get
> |>the  
> |>inspector to show what the object was. Has anyone figured out how to
> |>do  
> |>this in 3.0 yet?
> |>Bill Dudney
> |>dudney@pencom.com
> |>
> 
> I'd also be interested in knowing whether this is somehow still possible.
> 
> There used to be a "Miscellaneous" Inspector subpanel in the 2.1 IB
> which allowed
> the size to be specified and also the name of the object. In your app,
> you could 
> then locate an object using its owner and name. 
> 
> The concept of a name is obviously still there since I've converted some
> 2.1 .nib
> files to 3.0 format and can still locate the objects within them, but
> the 3.0 IB
> doesn't appear to let you name the objects any more.
> 
> Somewhat frustrating...
> 
> 

It's still there, but under the Edit menu as in

Edit/Set Name....

I  spent some time looking for it too.

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-- 
Chuck Bennett, BenaTong Consulting
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cgb@count0.cmhnet.org
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