Binding a custom NSView: Does it demand creating an IBPlugin?

Question

I have created a subclass of NSView to draw an image as a pattern:

@interface CePatternView : NSView
{
    NSImage*    image;
    id      observableObjectForImag         


        

Answer 1

No, you can use the method

bind:toObject:withKeyPath:options:

to establish your binding programmatically. I believe you do have to create an IB palette to get the bindings to appear in Interface Builder, but for a one-off class I don't intend to reuse, I've never bothered.