Re: Loading a custom view and its subviews from a nib

FROM : Matt Neuburg
DATE : Mon Jan 14 20:28:54 2002

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:39:53 -0500, Robert Miller
<<email_removed>> said:

>    This is probably a basic question but I've had no l uck solving the
>problem. I have a custom view instantiated in my nib file. The view
>contains other subviews such as buttons, etc. I want to be able to load
>this custom view programatically and then install it as a subview of
>some other view

What I do is to group the custom view instance into a box and make an
outlet to the box. Thus, my view is the box's contentView. I can now
replace some other object's contentView with it. So for example (this is
pretty much just lifted right out of the Learning Cocoa book):

  aView = [[myBox contentView] retain];
  [aView removeFromSuperview];
  [ourWindow setContentView: aView]; // or whatever
  [aView release];

m.
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