Hi,
Here's why I'm asking.
Right now I have an app that has a number of possibly different
'objects' in it. And I currently have a single inspector for all of
them.
When a new object is selected, the appropriate view for that object is
added to the inspector window.
This is a basically okay design.
The problem is that for any new object I add, I have to...
1) Add the object code, which contains all of the names of all of the
things I want in it
2) Add the inspector view controller code, which contains all of the
same names
3) Add the inspector view xib, which contains zero same names, so I
need to physically wire up all of the fields to things with the right
names.
If I had a way of tagging the objects by name inside XCode, then I
could actually whittle this down to a single object file, that would
use the keys found on the objects themselves (title, settings, etc.)
as tags for saving/restoring their state from files, as well as
knowing what properties to change on the objects. This would eliminate
over 80% of the code I currently have to write, and duplicate, for
each object. And those object files are HUGE.
This would also mean that to use one of these objects in another app,
all the other app would need would be a fairly generic interface to
the object.
-Chilton
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