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Custom Views

I've been looking for a way to create a custom container view so I can instantiate as many as I need and add them as subviews in a window. I thought I could make a subclass of NSView with a few text views in it, instantiate it in a nib, connect the outlets and have it ready to use. Of course, this doesn't work. I was able to make the views and drop them with the code below but the subviews are not connected to the outlets and they don't draw.

- (void)windowControllerDidLoadNib:(NSWindowController *) aController
{
[super windowControllerDidLoadNib:aController];
// Add any code here that needs to be executed once the windowController has loaded the document's window.

NSWindowController* myController = [[self windowControllers] objectAtIndex:0];
NSWindow* myWindow = [myController window];
NSView* mainView = [myWindow contentView];
NSRect initPos = {{0.0, 0.0}, {200.0, 100.0}};

planBoxView* newView = [[planBoxView alloc] initWithFrame: initPos];

[mainView addSubview: newView];
[newView setNeedsDisplay: YES];
}

I can see in the debugger that the view I make this way is added but its outlets are nils.

I want to make views for a project planner like MS Project. I want one view with a few subviews connected to outlets. I was hoping that I could make a view in IB and use it to drop them into my window on the fly. Is there way to do it this way with IB or do I need to lay my custom view out programatically ?

Is there a tech note for this ? I just can't find any Apple example code that covers this kind of thing.

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