Hello all; I’m trying to implement a fractal-drawing cocoa app and I want to use a popup menu to choose which type of fractal to draw. The fractals are different classes, but following the same general protocol. I thought I could name the items in the popup menu after the classes and then simply use:
@classfromstring([sender title]) alloc] init]
is there such a thing?
Inside /usr/include/objc/objc-runtime.h is a function called objc_getClass() which I think is what you’re looking for. Note that the function accepts a C string, so you’ll either want to wrap the above function call inside another function that accepts an NSString, or change your code to use C strings. If you don’t wrap the above fucntion, something to make this more pleasant would be to use #define to make more-friendly function name call objc_getClass().
By the way, there is very likely a “better” way to solve your above problem besides dipping into the Objective-C runtime. I was formulating one to suggest here, but it might be sort of “iffy”…
–KevinPerry
Oh whoops, my mistake. Well, that works too. Sorry about that –KevinPerry
This works, thanks… but I’ll look for a better solution later - right now this seems to be my alternative to implementing a whole plugin-system. thanks! EnglaBenny at macnytt com
You might want to consider using NSCell’s -setRepresentedObject: and -representedObject methods when you create or otherwise deal with the menu. [menuCell setRepresentedObject:[Fractal class]]; –JoeOsborn