Objective-c – How to use custom delegates in Objective-C

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I need to know about the usage of delegate methods in Objective-C. Can anyone point me to the correct source?

Best Solution

You will want to declare a delegate protocol for your class. An example of a delegate protocol and interface for class Foo might look like this:

@class Foo;
@protocol FooDelegate <NSObject>
@optional
- (BOOL)foo:(Foo *)foo willDoSomethingAnimated:(BOOL)flag;
- (void)foo:(Foo *)foo didDoSomethingAnimated:(BOOL)flag;
@end

@interface Foo : NSObject {
     NSString *bar;
     id <FooDelegate> delegate;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *bar;
@property (nonatomic, assign) id <FooDelegate> delegate;

- (void)someAction;

@end

Don't forget to synthesize your properties in the @implementation.

What this code did was declare a protocol called FooDelegate; a class that conforms to this protocol would be declared like @interface SomeClass : SuperClass <FooDelegate> {}. Because this class conforms to the protocol FooDelegate, it now gets to implement the methods under FooDelegate (to require that these be implemented, use @required instead of @optional). The last step is for a Foo object to be instantiated in the class that conforms to FooDelegate, and for this Foo object to have its delegate property set:

Foo *obj = [[Foo alloc] init];
[obj setDelegate:self];

Now, your class is prepared to receive messages from Foo objects that have their delegates set correctly.

Related Solutions

Objective-c – Generating random numbers in Objective-C

You should use the arc4random_uniform() function. It uses a superior algorithm to rand. You don't even need to set a seed.

#include <stdlib.h>
// ...
// ...
int r = arc4random_uniform(74);

The arc4random man page:

NAME
     arc4random, arc4random_stir, arc4random_addrandom -- arc4 random number generator

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <stdlib.h>

     u_int32_t
     arc4random(void);

     void
     arc4random_stir(void);

     void
     arc4random_addrandom(unsigned char *dat, int datlen);

DESCRIPTION
     The arc4random() function uses the key stream generator employed by the arc4 cipher, which uses 8*8 8
     bit S-Boxes.  The S-Boxes can be in about (2**1700) states.  The arc4random() function returns pseudo-
     random numbers in the range of 0 to (2**32)-1, and therefore has twice the range of rand(3) and
     random(3).

     The arc4random_stir() function reads data from /dev/urandom and uses it to permute the S-Boxes via
     arc4random_addrandom().

     There is no need to call arc4random_stir() before using arc4random(), since arc4random() automatically
     initializes itself.

EXAMPLES
     The following produces a drop-in replacement for the traditional rand() and random() functions using
     arc4random():

           #define foo4random() (arc4random() % ((unsigned)RAND_MAX + 1))

Objective-c – Shortcuts in Objective-C to concatenate NSStrings

An option:

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@/%@", one, two, three];

Another option:

I'm guessing you're not happy with multiple appends (a+b+c+d), in which case you could do:

NSLog(@"%@", [Util append:one, @" ", two, nil]); // "one two"
NSLog(@"%@", [Util append:three, @"/", two, @"/", one, nil]); // three/two/one

using something like

+ (NSString *) append:(id) first, ...
{
    NSString * result = @"";
    id eachArg;
    va_list alist;
    if(first)
    {
        result = [result stringByAppendingString:first];
        va_start(alist, first);
        while (eachArg = va_arg(alist, id)) 
        result = [result stringByAppendingString:eachArg];
        va_end(alist);
    }
    return result;
}