iphone - When should I use the “self” keyword?

Question

When should I be using the self expression in my iphone development applications? say i have 2 fields: UITextField *text1; and NSString *str1; retained and synthesized.

when i am accessing either of these 2 fields, when should i and when should i not use self.text1 and self.str1 ?

Answer 1

self is not a keyword, it is an expression. Additionally, you use it any time you want to refer to a method or property on yourself, or yourself directly. By "yourself" I am of course, referring to the instance of the class you are operating in.