No problem. If you keep using IB, you're going to have a lot of partial classes, though, so if you're new to C# you might want to read up on how those work. :) Good luck!
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Michael Brian Bentley <[email protected] > wrote: > I had to duck out for a demo/meeting with the client today, a couple > hours ago, and so had to go prep something that worked :), I pulled > out something a few days older and worked with that. > > I think I have the approach; I work on my own MySplitViewController > class in IB and let MGSplitViewController be the stoic static > superclass provided through bindings. Working with > MGSplitViewController directly, the xib-associated design.cs was > trying to extend, there were keywords like "partial" showing up > Pairing a bound class with a subclass I define got me past the wall > of compile errors. > > I'll conquer IB some day. > > Thanks! > > -Mike > > At 2:09 PM -0700 5/20/11, David Moles wrote: > >When you say "defined it to be a subclass of MGSplitViewController", > >you mean in IB? I think ordinarily you would add ": > >MGSplitViewController" (by hand) in whatever (non-generated) file > >defines the rest of the partial class. > > > >E.g., if you just create a new iPhone window project in MonoDevelop, > >you get an AppDelegate class partially defined in > >MainWindow.xib.designer.cs and partially defined in Main.cs; the ": > >UIApplicationDelegate" is only in Main.cs. > > > >On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Michael Brian Bentley > ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >So I added MySplitViewController, defined it to be a subclass of > >MGSplitViewController, noodled some connections in IB, saved and > >built. It Complained about the same "can't convert between NSObject > >and your class" thing. Then I added the ": MGSplitViewController" > >reference below: > > > >[MonoTouch.Foundation.Register("MySplitViewController")] > >public partial class MySplitViewController : MGSplitViewController { > > > > private SpiffyDialogViewController __mt_delegate; > > > > #pragma warning disable 0169 > > [MonoTouch.Foundation.Connect("delegate")] > > private SpiffyDialogViewController @delegate { > > get { > > this.__mt_delegate = > > > ((SpiffyDialogViewController)(this.GetNativeField("delegate"))); > > return this.__mt_delegate; > > } > > set { > > this.__mt_delegate = value; > > this.SetNativeField("delegate", value); > > } > > } > >} > > > >Adding : MGSplitViewController fixed the error message. > > > >I do not understand why this is not being added by default, if I > >tell IB there's a relationship between MySplitViewController and > >MGSplitViewController, it should show up in the above generated code. > > > >-m > > > >Oh, wait. Hm. > > > >What if I defined in the xib MySplitViewController, and base that on > >MGSplitViewController? And use IB to establish the inheritance > >chain? That way the designer.cs file isn't trying to redefine or > >extend a class defined by a set of bindings. > > > >Back inna sec... > > > >I didn't write it. MGSplitViewController is something that Matt > >Gemmell wrote (it's up on GitHub), and someone else (Miguel?) wrote > >a binding set for it (part of mono-monotouch-bindings also up on > >GitHub). The ObjC project builds and works, so I created a project > >that builds a .a for it, included the .a in the project using a > >minimal mtouch command someone suggested, and built the dll for the > >bindings and added that as a reference. > > > >I actually started to rewrite the objc project in C#, but I ran into > >a bunch of issues and decided to try this instead. I'm not yet the > >hot coder in either objc or C#, but now at least I have a better > >idea how they're different. > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >David Moles > ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > -- David Moles [email protected]
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