Iphone – Referencing AppDelegate instance variables

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I have a project that is based on the Navigation Based Application template.
In the AppDelegate are the methods -applicationDidFinishLoading: and -applicationWillTerminate:. In those methods, I am loading and saving the application data, and storing it in an instance variable (it is actually an object-graph).

When the application loads, it loads MainWindow.xib, which has a NavigationConroller, which in turn has a RootViewController. The RootViewController nibName property points to RootView (my actual controller class).

In my class, I wish to refer to the object that I created in the -applicationDidFinishLoading: method, so that I can get a reference to it.

Can anyone tell me how to do that? I know how to reference between objects that I have created programmatically, but I can't seem to figure out to thread my way back, given that the middle step was done from within the NIB file.

Best Solution

For variables (usually the model data structure) which I need to access it anywhere in the app, declare them in your AppDelegate class. When you need to reference it:

YourAppDelegate *appDelegate = (YourAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
//and then access the variable by appDelegate.variable 
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