Thanks everyone. Guess i was the only mac developer who didn't know that.... :)
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Jonathan Hess <jh...@apple.com> wrote: > Hey Darren - > > Try NSClassFromString. > > Animal* anAnimal = [[NSClassFromString(@"Dog") alloc] init] > > Jon Hess > > > On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Darren Minifie wrote: > > Hi everyone. >> >> I have the situation where I need to dynamically create an object based on >> the value held in a string at runtime. I'm pretty sure the dynamic nature >> of objective-c would allow this, but I cant seem to find the right method >> on >> NSString or NSObject. I want to do this: >> >> NSString* someClass = @"Dog"; >> Animal* anAnimal = [[someClass alloc] init]; >> >> I know this isn't right, but I'm trying to use the value held in someClass >> as the name of the class I want to instantiate. thanks for the help. >> >> >> -- >> Darren Minifie >> Graduate Studies: Computer Science >> www.myavalon.ca >> www.ohsnapmusic.com >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jhess%40apple.com >> >> This email sent to jh...@apple.com >> > > -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Computer Science www.myavalon.ca www.ohsnapmusic.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
