You can still design views in IB that you set as the content view of windows at runtime.
-Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software laur...@nemesys-soft.com On Jun 14, 2011, at 13:20, Luc Van Bogaert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hoping someone could provide some help solving the difficulties I'm > facing with validation of user interface items. The problem is caused by my > current GUI design, which is as follows: > > The contentview of my main window is designed to contain one of two different > views, to be selected by the user at runtime. So the view controllers are not > instantiated in IB, but rather in code during runtime. > > All the menu items and buttons in the interface use the target-action > mechanism, but because of the previous design decision, I am targetting the > "first responder" object instead of the actual view controller objects. When > the user switches views held by the main window, I'm making sure the selected > view also becomes first responder. So far so good. > > But now a problem comes up when adding another view to the interface. As this > extra view contains some textfields, selecting one of the text fields makes > it first responder, which in turn breaks my interface item validation, > because now the targetted actions can no longer be found as part of the > active first responder object. > > So, I seem to be forced to implement all my action methods in the AppDelegate > instead of in my view controllers, or is there some better way to solve this > problem? > > -- > Luc Van Bogaert > http://users.skynet.be/luc.van.bogaert > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/laurent%40nemesys-soft.com > > This email sent to laur...@nemesys-soft.com _______________________________________________ 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
