Re: Creating Custom Views in Interface Builder

FROM : Rob Keniger
DATE : Sat Mar 15 03:48:16 2008

On 15/03/2008, at 4:46 AM, <email_removed> wrote:

> It seems to me that you should be able to follow the QuickStart for
> building an InterfaceBuilder plug-in to create your custom NSView:



There's a trap for young players in the docs: watch out if you are 
creating a GC-only app. Classes instantiated via IB3 plugins MUST be 
compliant with the traditional retain/release mechanism, you can't 
create a plugin for a class that relies on Garbage Collection.

I personally find this limitation very frustrating as any code that is 
linked to the class must also be written to take into account non-GC 
memory management. If you are writing a Garbage-collected app this is 
a right pain in the backside.

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Rob Keniger