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Pheepster
Pheepster

Reputation: 6347

Clarification for StoryBoard references in XCode

Recently I stumbled across a post discussing how property outlets should be referenced when set up from a storyboard. The post is question stated that when setting a reference from a storyboard, that is ctrl-dragging the reference into the associated header, that the reference should be set as weak, since the storyboard already has a strong reference to the property.

Can anyone clarify this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (1)

rdelmar
rdelmar

Reputation: 104082

This is not true. It doesn't have anything to do with the storyboard having a reference. The outlets are usually set to weak, because they are references to UI elements that are subviews of some other view -- it's that view, the superview, that has the strong pointer (and ultimately, everything is a subview of the controller's self.view, and the controller has a strong pointer to it).

Upvotes: 2

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