On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Jo Meder <jome...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this question, but I'll ask it anyway
> :-)...
>
> Is there a Cocoa equivalent to Carbon's Get|SetControlProperty() family of
> functions? For those not familiar these functions let you associate user
> data with controls. I've never really used this for much, but it is very
> useful for storing a pointer to a C++ object representing the control in a
> UI framework, for example.


You could look at -[NSCell setRepresentedObject:].

-Ken


>
>
> It would be great to be able to do this for NSViews but I haven't been able
> to find any equivalent. Are there any ingenious ways that you might be aware
> of so I could bolt this on to NSView?
>
> I'm trying to avoid setting up a map from NSViews to UI framework objects,
> but I suspect it will be inevitable. Not really a big deal, but less hassle
> to be able to associate the data directly so that would be a preferable
> solution.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jo Meder
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