Question

I have a UIViewController in MonoTouch, defined together with a .xib as an iPad View Controller.

If i change the UIViewController to use a dynamic type like this:

public partial class CustomCount : UIViewController<tUnit> where tUnit : struct
    {

        private tUnit someVariable;
     ... (rest of class goes here) ...

Then monoTouch no longer seems to generate corresponding .h and .m files in it’s xCode project for this view controller.

Because of this, i can no longer access any of the UI outlets (as they are defined in the .m file)

If i remove the tTUnit dynamic type, everything works fine.

The where tUnit : struct portion makes no difference to MonoTouch.

Is there any known solution to this, or should i just create sepearate versions of my class for every type i am expecting?

Answer 1

Is being a struct required? You could use an interface otherwise.

Can you do this instead:

public partial class CustomCount : UIViewController
{
    //Use a static method here
    public static CustomCount Create(ISomeInterface yourVariable) { return new Customcount() { someVariable = yourVariable }; }

    //Private Constructor
    private CustomCount() { }

    private ISomeInterface someVariable;
}

You could event just make someVariable a public property or something.