What is the File's Owner (in Interface builder)?

Question

I am new to Cocoa and I don\'t understand the concept of File\'s Owner of a .nib file.

Here is the way I would see things :

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Answer 1

File's Owner is a placeholder in IB so all the outlets and actions in your code are "linkable" in IB, you can control-drag to connect stuff on the screen to the code.