On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Weydson Lima <weys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to set up two view controllers but I don't want to create a XIB and > .m/.h for each controller. Is it possible to use a single set of files to do > so? As I was reading the book by Mark and LaMarche, it looks that their > approach is to create a pair of those files for each View Controller. It's not entirely clear what you want to do because the two things you mentioned (separate/same XIB file versus separate/same source code file) aren't directly related. You can certainly have more than one class declared and implemented in the same .h/.m files. You can also have multiple controllers within the same XIB. Wherever your classes are declared/implemented, they show up as "available" in Interface Builder as individual classes, so when you instantiate them, they appear as if they were declared/implemented in different files. IB does not care. May I ask why you don't want separate source code files for separate classes? If they're all heavily related (such as NSTabView / NSTabViewItem), it makes some sense, but if they're separate controllers, you're just cluttering your files. It's far easier when you have one class (or one small group of two or three related classes) in one file because you can easily find them in your source tree. Combining lots of source from multiple medium-to-large classes in a single file will undoubtedly make navigating your code harder, and will probably slow down the editor. It's easier in this case just to separate your classes into their own files. Incidentally, I avoid combining multiple classes into single files whenever possible. In a current (complicated scientific data mining application) project, there's only one time I've done this and the "mini class" functions as a temporary "sabot" for translating / arranging the values of a complicated multidimensional data set that's only used by the computational engine. My obsessive-compulsive nature still causes me to obsess over whether it should be in its own file ... :-) -- I.S. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
