Re: subclassing a private subclass

FROM : John C. Randolph
DATE : Fri Jan 03 17:07:02 2003

On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 04:36 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:

>
> On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 12:18  am, John C. Randolph wrote:
>

>> @interface MyColor : NSObject
>>  {
>>  NSColor *realColor;
>>  // whatever ivars you want to keep
>>  }
>>
>> @end

>
> If you don't want/need to keep ivars, and just want to add a few
> convenience methods, categories are the way to go.


Finlay's right.  My answer presumed that you need to keep additional
state that an NSColor normally wouldn't.

-jcr

John C. Randolph    <<email_removed>>  (408) 974-8819
Sr. Cocoa Software Engineer,
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
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