Re: Nib file question

FROM : Boisy G. Pitre
DATE : Fri Dec 24 19:09:18 2004

On Dec 23, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Guy English wrote:

> Hey Boisy,
>
>    In your VirtualDriveController.h you'll need:
>
> IBOutlet NSView *virtualDriveView;
>
>    Drag VirtualDriveController.h into the instances pane in Interface
> Builder - that lets IB know all about your controller class - even
> though you're not actually going to make an instance of it.
>
>    Select the File's Owner in IB and open the inspector to Custom
> Class ( Apple-5 I think, not in front of a Mac right now. ) From the
> list of classes displayed select VirtualDriveController.
>
>    Now you can drag a line from your File's Owner to the view and
> connect it to vritualDriveView.
>
>    When you call [NSBundle loadNibNamed: @"VirtualDriveView" owner:
> self] the bundle loading code will connect your controllers
> virtualDriveView instance variable to the view you tied it to in IB.
> File's Owner is a stand in for the owner: argument in the call above.
>

Guy,

Thanks for the detailed explanation.  I had not realized that I could
reclassify File's Owner.  Now things are starting to make much more
sense to me.

Your instructions worked beautifully.  Now I am considering making
another class: VirtualDriveJukeBoxView (or as you have alluded to in
the past, driveBay).  This class would be subclassed from NSScrollView
and would handle any number of VirtualDriveViews placed on it.

Boisy