Re: Nested Components vs Custom View

FROM : stephane sudre
DATE : Tue Nov 02 12:33:28 2004

I think that in AddressBook, it's "just" a NSTextView.

On Nov 2, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Alexander F. Hartner wrote:

> I am trying to build a composite controll, like the one used in the
> address book to display and capture the address details.
>
> I am contemplating two options:
>
> 1.) To construct a controll by nesting various component inside each
> other, like one would do using Java Swing. Having a Java back ground
> this
> seems practical, but I don't know how to apply this in cocoa.
>
> 2.) To construct a custom view. I think this might be the preferred
> Cocoa
> approach, yet I haven't found any examples of controlls being
> dynamically
> added to a view.
>
> I would really appreciate any suggestion on how this is done using
> Cocoa.
> Any examples, or link to examples, would also be really great.