Re: +{NSImage imageNamed:fromBundle:]?

FROM : David Spooner
DATE : Fri Jan 11 22:08:08 2008

I don't know about extending the search list, but you can use 
NSBundle's -pathForImageResource: to implement

+ (NSImage *) imageNamed:(NSString *)name fromBundle:(NSBundle *)bundle
  {
    NSString *path = [bundle pathForImageResource:name];
    return path != nil ? [[[NSImage alloc] 
initWithContentsOfFile:path] autorelease] : nil;
  }

-dave


On 11-Jan-08, at 1:10 PM, glenn andreas wrote:

> 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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