First off, I'm new to IB and cocoa, so these questions should be taken
in that context.
Also, This is a port of an existing X/C++ app. The internals are tried
and true, all I'm doing is adding a new UI.
How do I obtain a reference to an object instanciated in IB?
I have 2 outline views and 2 instances of my datasource class, but I'm
not clear how I can contact each instance separately from my code. I
need to set a pointer in the datasource pointing to my internal (C++)
data structures so that the right data goes to the right view.
I can think of a few ways to do this, but none that are robust or clean.
On a barely related note -
I thought that the 'item' passed from the datasource to the outlineview
(returned by outlineView:child:ofItem:) should be opaque to the
outlineview, so I was passing a reference to a C++ object. This however
crashed my app whenever the disclosure triangle was clicked. It seems
that the runtime system was monkeying with my data, expecting it to be
am obj-c entity when it wasnt. I got round it by creating an obj-c
wrapper class and wrapping each C++ item before passing it to the
outlineview. This seems horribly inefficient to me, I have thousands of
items in my data trees.
Also: do I need to track and clean up all these wrapper instanes? I'm
assuming I dont - I hope I dont otherwise it'll be a complete
nightmare.
Many thanks for any help or insight.
paulm
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