Thank you very much! I did not think about the crappy way becase it *is* an unnatural way of doing things. By the way, how do you know NSCollectionView does it that way? Where do you collect such detailed informations? I did not know the second one. Thank you. Cheers.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Matteo Manferdini > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was trying to find a way to design a replicable view in IB. > > The behaviour I'm trying to replicate is the one of NSCollectionView: it > > gets a custom view designed in IB as the prototype view and then > replicates > > it to display its contents. Is there an easy way to do this? Since NSView > > does not implement the copy method, I don't think this is the approach > > taken. > > The hard solution would be to provide a copy method myself that > replicates > > all the subviews and controls (which are also subviews), but it would be > > very long and difficult since for each subview all the instance > properties > > must be replicated, without talking about sub-subviews. Since I don't > want > > to go throug all this, is there an easier way to do it? > > Thank you very much. > > Cheers. > > There are basically two ways to do it. > > One way, the crappy way, which NSCollectionView uses, is to use > NSCoder. You'll note that NSView does not conform to NSCopying but it > does conform to NSCoding. So the easy way to "copy" a view is to > serialize and then deserialize it. This is crappy because it's kind of > unnatural, requires some extra work to maintain external connections, > and in general is just sort of clunky. > > The other way, which I prefer, is to simply put the view in question > into a separate nib. Then just load the nib any time you want a new > view. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > > 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/mat.mailings%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
