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  • Subject: create object from class name held in String?
  • From: Darren Minifie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:50:53 -0700

Hi everyone.

I have the situation where I need to dynamically create an object based on
the value held in a string at runtime.  I'm pretty sure the dynamic nature
of objective-c would allow this, but I cant seem to find the right method on
NSString or NSObject.  I want to do this:

NSString* someClass = @"Dog";
Animal* anAnimal = [[someClass alloc] init];

I know this isn't right, but I'm trying to use the value held in someClass
as the name of the class I want to instantiate.  thanks for the help.


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Darren Minifie
Graduate Studies: Computer Science
www.myavalon.ca
www.ohsnapmusic.com
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