Re: top level objects and NSWindowController

FROM : Ken Victor
DATE : Sat Jun 24 01:20:51 2006

matt,
thanx for the response. and while that thread is interesting, and
perhaps i missed something in my reading of it, but i don't see how
to get the top level objects in a nib that is loaded via an
NSWindowController.

ken


At 4:10 PM -0700 6/23/06, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:26:34 -0700, Ken Victor <<email_removed>> said:

>>other than by using outlets, is it possible to gain access to the top
>>level objects in a nib file loaded via an NSWindowController?
>>
>>i would like to place several custom views in a nib (to be used as
>>various panes in a tab view), and i would like programmatically to
>>determine how many of them there are and get pointers to them when i
>>load the window.
>>
>>i realize i could switch to using NSNib instead of
>>NSWindowController, but i really really want to use
>>NSWindowController.
>>
>>also, i realize i can do this by using outlets, but that means
>>editting my source code every time i add another custom view. i also
>>realize that i could add an outlet to my custom views to point to a
>>controller in the nib, and then "register" the custom views in
>>awakeFromNib, but that seems like an extra step if i could simply get
>>the array of top level objects from NSWindowController.

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