I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why two out of three IBOutlet-connected properties were being connected just fine, but a third wasn’t. What was different? Long story short:
- One was “(weak)”, meaning implicitly readwrite. Apparently when I added that one I got it right accidentally.
- One was “(weak, readonly)” and yet still worked. The reason, it turns out, is that it was just a redeclaration of a superclass’s property, so apparently whatever check is used when connecting outlets is something along the lines of respondsToSelector(setFoo:). Which makes perfect sense, but leads to this awkward situation.
- The third was then added as a copy-paste-tweak of the second one, but alas wasn’t redeclaring a subclass’s property.
It took me an annoyingly long time to figure it out, especially since there’s no exceptions thrown, no log messages, nothing. Thank a lot AppKit.
