How to get multiple copies of a UIView loaded from a tip?

Question

I want to use the UIView hierarchy several times (the nib object is a template). Unfortunately, UIView does not match <NSCopying>, so

[cell.contentView addSubview: [[templEditCellView copy] autorelease]];

does not work.

I was not surprised, as I need a deep copy of the hierarchy of views.

Presentation is one of several top-level objects in a loadable nib. Is there a way to reload one specified top level object from nib? Should I split the view into one NIB that can be reloaded on demand? Or is there another way to make a deep copy of the view?

Thank!

Answer 1

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[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"TheNib" owner:anObject options:nil];

SO "net" . , , Jeff LaMarche .

Answer 2

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id copyOfAView = 
  [NSUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:
    [NSArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:aView]]; 

. NSNib , .

Answer 3

, , :

if (! templEditCellView) {
  [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"TextEditCellView" owner:self options:nil];
  if (! templEditCellView) {
    abort(); // !!
  }
}
[cell.contentView addSubview: templEditCellView];
templEditCellView = nil;

.

I would like to see an approach that does not propagate nib files if I have a lot of different cell settings (as I could).