managing IB objects without iboutlets

Question

i have got 24 buttons in my project.I need to manage them but I don't want to get my MainViewController polluted by 24 declarations of pointers, properties & synthesizes.

i was thinking about using buttonPushed functions and do it like:

> -(IBAction)buttonPushed:(id)sender{

> UIbutton *button=sender;

>[buttons addObjectAtIndex:[sender tag]];

>}

my question is:is sender a pointer to the IBObject?

edit:

I need to get a pointer to an object in interface builder which has not been clicked (so any (id)sender sent yet), what to do?

Answer 1

Yes, the sender parameter will contain your button that was pushed. This design pattern was designed exactly for this, the case you have one method for multiple actions

Answer 2

Yes, sender is the IBObject that sent the buttonPushed message. You can ask the sender (the button) for identifying information (such as the label) to decide what action to take.