On Jun 9, 2009, at 16:15, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote:
Imagine I have an NSTabView with 10 tabs that all contain the same
collection of controls. The only difference is that each control's
action/outlet is connected to a different controller object (of the
same class type). Is it possible to select a whole tab of controls,
copy them to the next tab and somehow change all the connections to
and from Controller1 so that they now connect to Controller2,3,4,5,6
etc without having to do 300 CTRL drags.
Perhaps this illustrates an underlying fundamental problem with the
structure of my app but I don't want to know about that right
now :) Well, ok, maybe I do...
In the absence of further information, it seems that a tab view is
wrong approach here. If all the so-called tabs are identical in user
interface terms (that is, the only difference is the data they
retrieve from your data model), you'd probably do better with a single
set of the controls and a segmented control to choose which set of
data values to use.
If you must use a tab view, you could also approach it with a view xib
and a view controller to define the common part of each tab. The view
controller would act as an intermediary to pass the action methods on
to the correct controller. (The details, and feasibility, of this
approach might depend on exactly what class of controllers you're
trying to use.)
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