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Freddy
Freddy

Reputation: 820

How can I create many windows programmatically?

As the titles says, I wonder if it is possible to create a windows programatically. Basically I want to create spawn a window at a random location on the screen when the user press a button. The problem I have is that if i create a view in runtime, it will disappear immediately after its created.

So is there any way to create windows, and then add them to an array and keeping them allocated?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 40

Answers (1)

Michael Dautermann
Michael Dautermann

Reputation: 89549

The reason it's disappearing as soon as you're creating it is because you haven't added them to a (preferably mutable) array yet. As soon as your function exits, the window gets deallocated and it goes away.

Create a "@property" or "ivar" for your mutable array (e.g. in your app delegate *) and as soon as you create your window, add the window object to that array and your window will likely not disappear.

note: * = app delegate is a terrible place to keep things, but for the purposes of getting you up to speed I'd recommend doing this to start with.

Upvotes: 1

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