Re: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard

2013-09-04 Thread Dave
> You could do that, but OP is using storyboards. In that case, the proper way > to pass that info is in -prepareForSegue:. I took a look at prepareForSegue, but I'm not sure how it would help here? In the Storyboard I have a VC with a name of "LTWMusicViewController", there is NOT a "LTWRockMu

Re: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard

2013-09-04 Thread Dave
On 4 Sep 2013, at 21:12, David Duncan wrote: > The point is, if the only difference between an LTWMusicViewController and an > LTWRockMusicViewController is that the latter defaults to the “Rock” > category, then you don’t actually *need* the LTWRockMusicViewController > subclass. You just ne

Re: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard

2013-09-04 Thread David Duncan
The point is, if the only difference between an LTWMusicViewController and an LTWRockMusicViewController is that the latter defaults to the “Rock” category, then you don’t actually *need* the LTWRockMusicViewController subclass. You just need to ensure that when you want an LTWMusicViewControlle

Re: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard

2013-09-04 Thread Dave
On 4 Sep 2013, at 15:02, Matt Neuburg wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2013, at 4:13 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:23:04 +0100 >> From: Dave >> Subject: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard >> >> Hi All,

Re: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard

2013-09-04 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sep 4, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2013, at 4:13 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: > > What you're doing has a lot of bad smells: > > * If I'm only going to call instantiateViewController, why am I using a > storyboard here at all? If I use a .xib file in

Re: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard

2013-09-04 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013, at 08:08 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote: > Maybe I just don't understand what the OP is trying to do. It seemed very > strange to me. m. Yes, more context would indeed help. It's not necessarily strange to want to use the same interface with multiple view controllers, but it does go

Re: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard

2013-09-04 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Sep 4, 2013, at 4:13 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: > Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:23:04 +0100 > From: Dave > Subject: Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard > > Hi All, > > If I am using a Storyboard that contains a view controller, > LTWMusi

Subclassing a View Controller in a Storyboard

2013-09-04 Thread Dave
Hi All, If I am using a Storyboard that contains a view controller, LTWMusicViewController that I'd like to sub-class like so: LTWRockMusicViewController : LTWMusicViewController Then in the viewDidLoad method, do: -(void) viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; self.pMusicCategory = kRockMusicCat