several windows in a NIB ?
several windows in a NIB ?
- Subject: several windows in a NIB ?
- From: Guillaume Laurent <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:00:57 +0100
Hi all,
I'm in the process of writing a proof-of-concept music sequencer. At
the moment all I'm aiming for is putting note events into tracks. I'm
using a Core Data model, which defines a Composition holding multiple
Tracks, each holding multiple Events. I've already done a basic NIB
for the main screen, which shows the Composition/multiple Tracks part
(a tableview, mostly). So far so good.
Next, I want to add a panel editor for editing a single track (adding/
removing events). That should be another table view. Following the
example in Hillegass "Cocoa Programming" 3rd Ed., I've created a new
NIB for that panel. However I very quickly run into "communication
problems" between the two NIBs. That is, the Track Editor Panel NIB
must know which track is being selected in the main NIB, among other
things. I know I could add a method in a controller to get that, but
it suddenly occurs to me that nothing prevents me from having several
top-level windows in a single NIB, i.e. the Track Editor Panel may
just as well be defined in the same NIB as the main window, and that
simplifies things a lot.
A question however : is this regarded as good practice ? And can I
still easily show or hide the panel window if it's not defined in its
own NIB ?
Thanks,
--
Guillaume
http://telegraph-road.org
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