On May 10, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Roland King wrote:

> right - it's listed as a property but it doesn't tell you it's an outlet 
> anywhere I can see, which would be vaguely useful to know I think.

Yes, you blokes have a Good Point.    I wonder how that's done --- some magic 
in the 
Interface Builder templates, maybe?      I see that the Classes section in 
Interface Builder's
Library catalogue lists the outlets there.

Anybody from Developer Publications feel like chiming in?

> 
> Henry McGilton wrote:
>> On May 10, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>>> I've been thinking about how to explain to a beginner that some classes have
>>> built-in outlets, and it strikes me that the documentation falls down here.
>>> For example, you know and I know that a UIViewController has a view outlet;
>>> it is visible in the Connections inspector in IB when you select an object
>>> that's a UIViewController (or a subclass thereof). But the UIViewController
>>> class documentation never mentions this fact; and neither does the header,
>>> if it comes to that. Doesn't this strike you as kind of odd? m.
>> It's listed under  'Properties'.
>>    Cheers,
>>        . . . . . . . .    Henry

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