Split NSTabView across multiple NSViewControllers and XIBs?

Cocoa development on the desktop has some major differences compared to iOS development. One of them is the use of view controllers - they aren't strictly necessary - and when you use them you can just stick to a generic NSViewController regardless of what kind of view it contains. All of the methods you need to control the tab view are in the NSTabView class - not the controller Having said that, putting 12 views in to a tabview sounds like a painful way to interact with a program.

Have you thought about a source-detail type setup (think itunes or mail with their sidebars - each entry in the sidebar corresponds to a different view)?

Cocoa development on the desktop has some major differences compared to iOS development. One of them is the use of view controllers - they aren't strictly necessary - and when you use them you can just stick to a generic NSViewController regardless of what kind of view it contains. All of the methods you need to control the tab view are in the NSTabView class - not the controller.

Having said that, putting 12 views in to a tabview sounds like a painful way to interact with a program. Have you thought about a source-detail type setup (think itunes or mail with their sidebars - each entry in the sidebar corresponds to a different view)?

Thanks for the answer. I haven't considered it, but now that you mention it, I will. €¦Err, how would I do that?

What classes would I use to get started with? – Inspire48 Sep 8 at 0:28 It is essentially an NSSplitView that has an NSTableView on the left and an NSView on the right. The right-hand side really depends on your data.

– sosborn Sep 8 at 1:12 By the way, you might want to look at this: stackoverflow. Com/questions/1670727/… – sosborn Sep 8 at 1:14.

I've ditched the tab bar, and as per sosborn's suggestion, I have used a split view—or rather I've put a table view on the side, and a custom view taking up most of the screen. Then, in my AppDelegate, I have individual controllers as ivars (I need individual controllers because there are a lot of calculations involved, and I don't want to have a monster class handling them all). They'll be lazily loaded, and the view will be assigned to the current controller's view as necessary.

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