Question

I want to create a Class object in this way:
Class c = [Class classNamed:[NSString stringWithFormat:@”%sview”, [_shapeClass name]]];

My problem is this error message: “error: expected expression before ‘Class'”.
What do you think? What’s the problem? Thank you for replys.

Edit:
I want to do this in a switch case.

Answer 1

There is no class named “Class”. “Class” is the type of a pointer to a class object. Anyway, there is a classNamed: method in NSBundle, which might be what you were looking for:

Class c = [[NSBundle mainBundle] classNamed:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%sview", [_shapeClass name]]];

If you know the class is already loaded, you can also get it like this:

Class c = NSClassFromString([NSString stringWithFormat:@"%sview", [_shapeClass name]]);