Question

Please excuse my ignorance, I’m coming from iOS to Mac programming. I have two nibs. One is the main window with the split view. The nib contains a navigationController view I created. I’m trying to replace the right pane of the split view (navigationView) with this view. When the application first launches, navigationView is just a custom view in interface builder.

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
    NavigationController *navController = [[NavigationController alloc]
                                           initWithNibName:@"NavigationController" 
                                           bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
    navigationView = navController.view;
}

This doesn’t seem to do anything. I tried adding the navController.view as a subview, and that at least gets it showing up, but it is placed very oddly. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Answer 1

You will definitely have to add the views you want in the NSSplitView as a subviews of the NSSplitView. You’ll need to provide more information about what happens after that.

There’s lots of sample code on Apple’s website and many of them use NSSplitViews.