Saturday, August 11, 2012

Iphone coding explain.....



1.(id)sender Explain?

(id)sender is the object which sent the message to that selector. It's like in the delegate functions where you have the control passed in to the function, etc.

"sender" is the name of the variable.
"(id)" means that the type of the variable is "id", that stands of "any object" (You can see it as the top of the object hierarchy if you want
It is whatever object has called the action method; e.g., a button.
You can use the id to check which of a set of buttons called the action, for instance.
Example:
- (IBAction)myAction:(id)sender {
    if (sender == self.someButton) {
        UIButton *button = (UIButton *)sender;
        ...
        return;
    } else if (sender == self.someControl) {
        UIControl *control = (UIControl *)sender;
        ...
        return;
    }
}



2.iphone+Difference between nil,NIL and null




nil is the literal null value for Objective-C objects, corresponding to the abstract type id or any Objective-C type declared via @interface. For instance:
NSString *someString = nil;
NSURL *someURL = nil;
id someObject = nil;
if (anotherObject == nil) // do something
Nil is the literal null value for Objective-C classes, corresponding to the type Class. Since most code doesn’t need variables to reference classes, its use is not common. One example is:
Class someClass = Nil;
Class anotherClass = [NSString class];
NULL is the literal null value for arbitrary C pointers. For instance,
int *pointerToInt = NULL;
char *pointerToChar = NULL;
struct TreeNode *rootNode = NULL;
NSNull is a class for objects that represent null. In fact, there’s only one object, namely the one returned by +[NSNull null]. It is different from nil because nil is a literal null value, i.e., it isn’t an object. The single instance of NSNull, on the other hand, is a proper object.
NSNull is often used in Foundation collections since they cannot store nil values. In the case of dictionaries, -objectForKey: returns nil to indicate that a given key has no corresponding object in the dictionary, i.e., the key hasn’t been added to the dictionary. If you want to make it explicit that you have a certain key but it doesn’t have a value yet, you can use [NSNull null].
For instance, the following throws an exception because dictionaries cannot store nil values:
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[dict setObject:nil forKey:@"someKey"];
On the other hand, the following code is valid since [NSNull null] is a non-nil object:
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[dict setObject:[NSNull null] forKey:@"someKey"];
It’s worth mentioning that Foundation collections have initialisers that use nil as a marker for the end of a list of objects without having to specify the number of elements in the list. This can only happen because nil cannot be stored in a Foundation collection. For instance,
NSArray *array = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"one", @"two", nil];
As for NIL or NSNil, there are no such things in Objective-C or Apple Foundation.








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