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In practice, you use File's Owner as a source and destination for links and actions. If you follow the instructions
in Chapter 7, IB is intelligent enough to link to File's Owner automatically. In a more complex application, you
may need to create links to a wider selection of objects.
You can use the File's Owner placeholder in two ways:
To create links to the object that loads the nib file
To review a complete list of existing links
When you link item by item, it's easy to forget which links have been made. Opening the Connections Inspect-
or and selecting the File's Owner icon shows every link placeholder object in a single display, as shown in Fig-
ure 8.1.
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It's often useful to view this list and create links to it rather than linking object by object, because the File's Own-
er pseudo-object displays all its outlets at the same time. This can be a significant timesaver.
FIGURE 8.1
Viewing the links to File's Owner with the Connections Inspector
