Accessing Properties
If properties have been declared in the header file, they can then be accessed from other classes:
NSString *setString = @"Some string...";ICFObject *anObject = [[ICFObject alloc] init];[anObject setMyString:setString];UIImage *anImage = [anObject myImage];[anObject release];
The getter method for a property is simply the name of the property. The setter method for the property is “set” prefixed to the name of the property, in camel case. In the previous code example, the string property myString can be set using the method setMyString:.
To access a property internally, the keyword self can be used:
[self setMyString:@"A new string"];UIImage *image = [self myImage ...
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