On May 5, 2010, at 05:42, Graham Cox wrote:

> The problem should be obvious - how to ensure that each instance of the 
> controller can use a specific unique key in the user defaults. Creating a 
> unique key is easy, but at load time how to calculate the exact same key for 
> the specific instance is not. I thought of adding a 'settings name' property 
> that was used to prefix the key but there's no way to set it earlier than 
> -awakeFromNib time from some external object that "knows" which instance it 
> is using. Ideally the settings name could be set for the instance in IB, but 
> since this is a generic NSObject subclass I can't do that without making an 
> IB plugin just to set it, which seems like major overkill.
> 
> Is there another way to set the settings name just in time?

The first thing that sprang to mind was to use two different subclasses of the 
controller. Then either test the class name, or have the subclasses return a 
unique name or key (that's built into the subclass so you don't have to set it 
in IB).


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