+{NSImage imageNamed:fromBundle:]?

FROM : glenn andreas
DATE : Fri Jan 11 21:10:04 2008

NSImage's +imageNamed: is documented as searching the named images 
cache, the apps main bundle, and then the AppKit framework bundle. 
Unfortunately, I've got code in a private framework that wants to get 
the image stored that framework (which isn't thus searched).

Is there some way to add a framework to this search path?  (Which 
would be best, because it will allow any object, such as a button, 
that has an image name to automatically work correctly) Or at least a 
way to explicitly pass a bundle to search (via a hypothetical 
+imageNamed:fromBundle:).  The fall back, of course, is to get all the 
possible file extensions from NSImage and manually try each and every 
one of them, but I'd rather not have to duplicate this logic (plus 
this fails to support the generic button using a named image that 
resides in the private framework)...

I suppose I could also, at startup, go through all the images in the 
framework, load them, and then do a "setName:" to get them in the 
cache (but this seems like it could impact program launch times)

Glenn Andreas                      <email_removed>
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