Struggling with Preference Pane - XCode Forum- The iPhone and Mac OS Xcode Developer Community

Adam Penny · #1 (**permalink**) 10-19-2008, 08:28 PM

Hi there,

I've been doing a bit of Cocoa and not doing too badly, having completed Aaron Hillegass' book a while back and successfully done a few other bits and bobs as far as Cocoa Apps are concerned.

I now find myself wanting to make a preference panel, which isn't covered in the book. I've looked at Apple's documentation on implementing a preference panel, but I think it must be geared to XCode 2, which I've never used and I can't seem to translate its guidance to XCode 3.

The panel is supposed to just read and write to a plist in /Library/Preferences/ which I created as a model for a Ruby command line utility, which does some backend stuff with CUPS.

I added 3 IB Outlets to the preferences subclass:

Code:

#import <PreferencePanes/PreferencePanes.h>

@interface WopolPref : NSPreferencePane 
{
	IBOutlet NSTextField *broadcastIP;
	IBOutlet NSTableView *printerSpec;
	IBOutlet NSTableView *serverSpec;
}

- (void) mainViewDidLoad;

@end

When I try to associate the class with an NSObject in IB, I don't get these outlets. Instead I see

_firstKeyView
_secondKeyView...

and some more stuff like that. Where am I going wrong?

If you can warn me about any other possible traps I might fall into then please tell me.

Thanks all.

jon · #2 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 06:30 PM

Have you read the Apple documentation on preference panes?

Preference Panes: Creating a Preference Pane Bundle