On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Darren Minifie <minof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I have the situation where I need to dynamically create an object based on > the value held in a string at runtime. I'm pretty sure the dynamic nature > of objective-c would allow this, but I cant seem to find the right method on > NSString or NSObject. I want to do this: > > NSString* someClass = @"Dog"; > Animal* anAnimal = [[someClass alloc] init]; > > I know this isn't right, but I'm trying to use the value held in someClass > as the name of the class I want to instantiate. thanks for the help.
NSClassFromString! <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Miscellaneous/Foundation_Functions/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000055-BCIJDAJA> _______________________________________________ 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
