🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello netters,

I'm still fairly new to the appkit so bear with me.

In the example WhatADrag/Controller.m we have the following method:

- displayInfoPanel:sender
{
    if (!infoPanel) {
      [NXApp loadNibSection:"InfoPanel.nib" owner:self];
    }
    [infoPanel makeKeyAndOrderFront:NULL];
    
    return self;
}

suppose I don't check to see if infoPanel exists:

- displayInfoPanel:sender
{
//    if (!infoPanel) {
      [NXApp loadNibSection:"InfoPanel.nib" owner:self];
//    }
    [infoPanel makeKeyAndOrderFront:NULL];
    
    return self;
}

Now when I hit the Info button in the menu (in the compiled app),  
displayInfoPanel:sender is sent and the nib is unarchived again and again.  

My question is - do all of the instances have the same id (i.e. "infoPanel) ?  

What I would like to be able to do is compose an object in interface builder,  
save it as a nib,  dynamically (programatically) create copies of that nib, but  
each with a unique id.  Kinda' like using a nib for a class definition.  Is  
this possible?
 

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Ronald Pomeroy
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM Applications Group
Austin, Texas
rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com