🚀 go-pugleaf

I have placed a new version of my InspectorManager class on the archive sites.   
It has been significantly improved over the last version I had posted half a  
year ago.  It also now comes with an example to illustrate how to use it.

To give you some idea if it is worth downloading, here's the Readme:



InspectorManager

InspectorManager is a class that manages the displaying of elements of a list  
of view objects that are periodically displayed and removed from a window.  One  
obvious use of this is for implementing an inspector panel (hence the name),  
but the functionality of this class is really not specific to inspectors.   
Despite the terminology used, InspectorManager could be useful for other  
purposes, such as a multi-view preferences panel.  (I considered changing the  
name to something that more closely reflects this, but eventually decided not  
to.)  It was designed to be flexible enough to handle inspector functionality  
for just about any application.

Basically, you give InspectorManager "inspector views" (such as boxes with  
controls in them) and tell it when you want it to display one of them.  When a  
selection is made via the group popup, InspectorManager messages a delegate and  
lets the delegate determine which inspector needs to be shown.  This allows  
total flexibility - a single popUpList item (eg. 'Contents' in Workspace  
Manager) may bring up one of many actual inspectors (eg. '.snd', '.tiff', '.h',  
etc.) - but you are required to write the code that determines which inspector  
needs to be shown. 

Features of InspectorManager class:

1) PopUpList items are not tied to particular inspectors, so that an inspector  
appropriate for the currently selected object can be shown.
2) Allows inspector views laid out in any of an application's nib files to be  
managed by a single InspectorManager.
3) Uses command-key equivalents for switching between inspectors and displaying  
the panel (as is done in Workspace Manager and Interface Builder).
4) Uses compositing to an offscreen buffer to speed swaps between inspectors.   
This feature may be disabled if desired.    
5) Allows an inspector view to consist of multiple smaller views, if desired.

Complete documentation for the class is given in the file InspectorManager.rtf.


Developed under NeXTStep 2.1 by:

Kevin Brain (ksbrain@zeus.UWaterloo.ca)
University of Waterloo
Department Of Systems Design
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1


PS.  I am going to be on holidays for a week, so don't think I'm ignoring you  
if you mail me about this and I don't respond:-)