Re: Problem configuring NSToolbarItem in IB

FROM : Christian Corsano
DATE : Sun May 25 19:31:32 2008

On 25 mai 08, at 18:45, Jens Alfke wrote:

> You should be able to add IBOutlets to your controller and wire them 
> up to the individual toolbar items in IB.


Thanks Jens, I hadn't thought of this solution !
But it still doesn't fell right to have to wire all these instances 
manually and keep a reference in my controller just to set their 
identifiers ...

On 25 mai 08, at 18:53, Nathan Kinsinger wrote:

> I have no idea why they don't allow you to set the identifier in IB, 
> but you can set the Tag of each item and use that to identify each 
> individual toolbar item.
>
> In a preference panel where the toolbar is not customizable I've 
> used the paletteLabel as an identifier. But don't do that if it is 
> customizable since the labels will change if they are localized.


Thanks Nathan, I was wondering how other people dealt with this problem

I have considered this solution, but as I haven't decided yet whether 
I want to allow toolbar customization I dropped it pretty quickly (and 
even if I decide not to, using a label as an unique identifier seems 
too much of a hack in this beautiful Cocoa world).

Here's what I've done for now : removed the items from my toolbar in 
IB and initialized them in my controller.
This way I can avoid hardcoding everything related to the toolbar 
items, as I load their values from a localized plist file.

But of course I can no longer visualize my toolbar items in IB ... I 
may eventually switch to Jens' idea


Christian