Re: Using IBInspectorManager's addInspectorModeWithIdentifier method

FROM : Vince DeMarco
DATE : Wed Nov 20 20:20:39 2002

On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 08:57  AM, Ricci Adams wrote:

> Thanks for this information Vince.
>
> The examples in BusyPalette involve adding additional inspectors.  Is
> there
> any way to *overwrite* the default Attribute inspector?
>

Provide your own attribute inspector.

> If you drag an NSTableView from the palette onto your window, and
> click on it once,
> it will display the palette for the NSTableView (even though you have
> clicked on an
> NSScrollView).
>
> I would like to do the same with my custom NSTableView subclass - have
> IB display
> the palette for it when you click on the NSScrollView.
>

The mechanism to do this isn't public. sorry please file a bug asking
for it.

vince

> Again, thanks for replying to my previous message!
> Ricci Adams
>
> On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 10:44 PM, Vince DeMarco wrote:
>
>>
>> On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 08:16  PM, Ricci Adams wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anybody has figured out how to use the following
>>> method in IBInspectorManager:
>>>
>>> - (void)addInspectorModeWithIdentifier:(NSString *)identifier
>>>     forObject:(id)object localizedLabel:(NSString *)label
>>>     inspectorClassName:(NSString *)inspectorClassName
>>>     ordering:(float)ordering;
>>>
>>> I have created a custom subview of NSTableView, and am trying to
>>> make a
>>> palette and inspector for it.  Unfortuately, when you first click on
>>> the view in IB (you are actually clicking on an NSScrollView), it
>>> displays the inspector for NSTableView.  Then when you click on it
>>> again (actually clicking on my subview), it displays the inspector
>>> for
>>> my custom view.  Anyway, I was trying to use the above method to fix
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Any information that you can provide is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Look at /Developer/Examples/InterfaceBuilder/BusyPalette
>>
>> its all there.
>>
>> vince
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