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Ankit Singh
Courses Plus Student 1,752 PointsWhat is IBOultet and IBAction, diffenrence between them and where we have to code them weather in .h file or .m file
What is IBOultet and IBAction, diffenrence between them and where we have to code them weather in .h file or .m file
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Steve Hunter
57,712 Points@IBOutlet displays the result of your code in the GUI. Things like changing the text/color on screen. Stuff that communicates an altered state to the user.
@IBAction takes the action from the GUI and enters it into your code. Things like a press on the screen, a shake gesture or entering a text response.
They are both ways of interacting with the user either by accepting their input or displaying an output.
In Obj-C they'll both be defined in .h and implemented in .m