Re: create object from class name held in String?
Re: create object from class name held in String?
- Subject: Re: create object from class name held in String?
- From: Darren Minifie <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:55:53 -0700
Thanks everyone. Guess i was the only mac developer who didn't know
that.... :)
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Jonathan Hess <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hey Darren -
>
> Try NSClassFromString.
>
> Animal* anAnimal = [[NSClassFromString(@"Dog") alloc] init]
>
> Jon Hess
>
>
> On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Darren Minifie wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Darren Minifie
>> Graduate Studies: Computer Science
>> www.myavalon.ca
>> www.ohsnapmusic.com
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Darren Minifie
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