Another tricky problem... I have two instances of a particular view controller in my app - however it is not an NSViewController, merely an NSObject that happens to control a view. The two views are identical in function but have distinct uses within the app's GUI as a whole.
The controllers have two particular properties relating to the layout of the view that would be usefully persistent. Making these persistent is very easy, I can simply write the property to the user defaults in the setter, and restore it at some suitable time, say -awakeFromNib (by the way both controller instances are instantiated in different nibs). The problem should be obvious - how to ensure that each instance of the controller can use a specific unique key in the user defaults. Creating a unique key is easy, but at load time how to calculate the exact same key for the specific instance is not. I thought of adding a 'settings name' property that was used to prefix the key but there's no way to set it earlier than -awakeFromNib time from some external object that "knows" which instance it is using. Ideally the settings name could be set for the instance in IB, but since this is a generic NSObject subclass I can't do that without making an IB plugin just to set it, which seems like major overkill. Is there another way to set the settings name just in time? --Graham _______________________________________________ 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
