Re: IBPalette refuses to bring up inspector [SOLVED]

FROM : Ricky Sharp
DATE : Sun Nov 28 06:25:24 2004

On Nov 27, 2004, at 9:45 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

> At 17:36 Uhr -0600 27.11.2004, Ricky Sharp wrote:

>> Fortunately, I was able to get past this frustration.

>
>  Good to hear that!
>

>> I'm just happy now that I have a working recipe as I'll be adding
>> three more custom classes to my palette soon.

>
>  Do you have a blog? Would you be interested in writing a little about
> your experiences developing your IB palette? I think this is a very
> interesting and useful area of Cocoa, but woefully under-documented.
> So I'd be very interested in any experiences anyone would perhaps want
> to share about this.


No blog, but I one day will be putting together a document with some
"recipes".  The goal will be to also provide a sample palette with
multiple items.  At least one item will implement a container.  Others
will be simple NSView derivatives or more complex NSControl/NSCell
derivatives.

>  In particular, I haven't found any information about how I can add my
> own "connections" to the inspector for a particular object, e.g. to
> implement target-action.
>
>  Did you do anything like this? Are there any docs anywhere that
> detail this?


I didn't do any custom connections, so can't help there.

You're correct in stating that the docs are hardly there.  Many google
searches for IB APIs simply return a few hits - usually to Sun's site
or some mirror of the older NeXT documentation.

Right now I'm doing some trial-and-error stuff regarding loading images
from a parent Xcode project.  While I do have code that can hunt down
and load the images, such code isn't being invoked when my nib document
opens.  I'm hoping to find a solution by listening to
IBDidOpenDocumentNotification notifications.

As you can imagine, doing things trial-and-error hardly makes for any
progress.  But things are slowly getting there and I'm being careful to
write all this stuff down :)

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