[The_Equivocator]

Does anyone know how to dynamically load NIB files so that I can use them as sheets? This has been giving me a lot of trouble...

Here is what I want to do...

I have an Document-Based Cocoa application that has an NSPopUpButton with n different choices and a normal button next to it. When the normal button is pushed, I want it to check the NSPopUpButton and display a specific sheet depending upon which item in the NSPopUpButton is selected. I want the NIB file to be dynamically loaded since there are going to be a lot of them.

I've thought about creating a SheetController class that each Document has an instance of, and then having this SheetController class have instances of SheetControllerA, SheetControllerB, and so on for the number of sheets I have... but I'm having trouble implementing it (specifically with the syntax of the method that is called to display the sheet).

Can anyone help me?

[macrophyllum]

I have an app which, when buttons are pushed loads sheets, each of which have their own nib file. I made instances of the classes in IB and hooked the buttons up to the appropriate actions. I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but it works. This is an example of how I did it with Java:

public void openSheet(NSButton aButton) { //this action was hooked up in IB

NSApplication.loadNibNamed("theSheet", this); //this loads the nib file
makeSheetAppear(); //this is the method that actually makes the sheet appear

}

public void makeSheetAppear() {
NSWindow theWindow = NSApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow();
NSApplication.sharedApplication().beginSheet(sheet Window,theWindow,null,null,null);


}


Hope that helps.