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    <p>In several parts of my application, I need a control where a user can enter a password. The password field is secure, however I want the user to have the ability to switch the field to plain text and check for typos, etc.</p> <p>The password field itself is no problem. I subclassed NSSecureTextField to get the behaviour I want. I make it bindable, so I can toggle the display from another control (say, a Checkbox).</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ABzOu.png" alt="enter image description here"> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cNvkt.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Now, I want to reuse this in multiple places within my application. I can simply use my custom secure text field along side a checkbox everywhere I need this. But I would prefer to group these pieces together into a reusable component.</p> <p>So I create one using interface builder:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/o2T3W.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Now, how can I use that in my different windows? I have added a 'Custom View' component to my window, and set it's type appropriately:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1xxf.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>But at runtime, I just get an empty space.</p> <p>1 - Presumably because my view is defined in a .xib - I need to do something in code to load my PasswordView instance from the .xib; but what exactly do I need to do? I'm having trouble working this out.</p> <p><strong>Specifically:</strong></p> <ul> <li><p><strong>What is the process / API to load an instance of my view from a .xib? I'm struggling to find the documentation on this.</strong></p></li> <li><p><strong>Once I have loaded an instance of my view, how to insert it in place of my Custom View 'placeholder'? Presumably I need an outlet to my custom view, but then what? Do I just assign my loaded instance to the outlet? Am I supposed to add it as a subview to the outlet?</strong></p></li> <li><p><strong>Where should this logic be happening? Inside init, inside AwakeFromNib?</strong></p></li> </ul> <p>2 - I know I can use an NSViewController for my custom view (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3742720/loading-nsview-subclass-from-a-xib">example</a>), and load it that way. But do I really need a view controller just for this? It seems I should just be able to create standalone views and instantiate them easily... But perhaps this is not the Cocoa 'way'? It seems to me that there should be a straightforward way of composing a view from multiple .xibs without needing a controller for every sub view (which may just be a text field, or a button), but I'm just not finding it...</p> <p>Thank you in advance.</p>
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    1. COyou say it, you need code to load your NSView whenever you need it and place it into the view... nothing you can do out-of-the-box with interface builder
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    2. CO@Daij-Djan thank you, but I've added some specifics to my question on my particular sticking points
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