On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Keary Suska wrote:
I would have each "row" of controls as a vanilla NSView in a separate nib. Your controller class, which would be the nib owner, could manage each "set"of controls. You'll need to familiarize yourself with nib loading(particularly NSNib's methods) and the cocoa drawing system (particularly views and subviews, and the coordinate system), at least. There may be morethat I am not thinking of.
In addition to what Keary Suska said, you can use NSViewController to manage the custom compound view located it's own NIB. NSViewController will manage memory, help with bindings and general management. Basically everyhing you would have to do manually otherwise.
NSViewController is available in 10.5.See http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/NSViewController_Class/Introduction/Introduction.html for more information.
The basic steps are these:1) create a custom NSViewController derived class (MyViewController) which will manage one row of controls in your UI (define outlets for one row)
2) create a view XIB/NIB in Xcode and set it up in IB.3) In IB make sure you set the File's Owner class to your custom NSViewController class.
4) Set the view outlet of the File's Owner to your compound view in the XIB
5) Add other views, controls buttons and wire them to the outlets in the custom controller.
6) Prepare your main UI by setting up a container view that will host the compound view and create an outlet for that view (container).
7) In the main controller (the one that embeds the individual rows), create an instance of your view controller like this:
myViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MyViewNib" bundle:nil];
(release it in -dealloc of that class). 8) Embed the compound view in your container using: [container addSubview:[myViewController view]]; [[myViewController view] setFrame:<WHERE_YOUR_WANT_IT>]; [[myViewController view] setHidden:NO];9) You can also use NSViewControllers representedObject to wire bindings or add your own UI management code that loads and saves data.
10) Repeat steps 7-9 for each row you need to display.In your case you would have an array of MyViewControllers than let you access the individual rows.
Hope this helps. Regards Markus -- __________________________________________ Markus Spoettl
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