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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Multiple instantiation of windows laid out with IB
Message-ID: <12611@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Oct 89 02:49:15 GMT
References: <130030@gore.com>
Reply-To: Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
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In article <130030@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>Is there a way to use the Interface Builder to set up a window, and then
>create an arbitrary number of copies of this window from the program, at
>run-time? 
>For example, suppose I use IB to lay out a DocumentWindow, and my
>application requires opening a separate DocumentWindow for each document it
>edits.

Yes; the easist way to do this is to create a separate .nib file for your
window and load it in whenever you need to create a new document. 

Take a look at the Yap source; at the YapDocument.m file. In its "new" 
factory method it loads the YapDocument.nib file, right after creating
a new instance of the class. This new object is specified as the "owner"
to the loadNibSection:owner: method; thus the outlet initialization methods
in this object will be called.  YapDocument.nib has one outlet, "document,"
thus the "setDocument:" method of this new object is invoked, giving it
a handle to the text object in this window. 

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com