Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge if there was a
framework that would allow me to create a Dashboard-like canvas so I
can layout my objects on my document-based application. I found
MySQL Workbench to be almost what I wanted.
I google-image'd "MySQL Workbench" and see that it looks very much
like XCode's data modeler. While not trivial, it's not terribly
difficult to do.
You can take a look at the Sketch example code in your Developer
folder. That'll get you close, but it uses one view and draws the
individual elements into the view. This may be difficult for
complicated elements (with lots of little controls, etc.).
If you *are* implementing a more complicated element control (like
the data modeler's expanding/contracting list of text fields, etc.),
I'd recommend taking a view/subview approach:
Canvas View <---->> Element View (added as subview)
This will be a poor performer, however, if you have "a lot" of
subviews. "A lot" depends on complexity of the element subview, etc.
You can also draw the connecting lines in the canvas view, using
the element subview's frames to determine the lines' locations.
I hope this helps / is somewhat clear.
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I.S.
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