external images needed by nib file

Question

Hi,

I have this nib file, with a large number of NSImageViews that use a large number of Images in my application bundle.

I'm hoping to change the images displayed though while the application is running.

What I want to do is to externalize these images into an application support folder so that when I want to modify them, I don't have to modify the application bundle. I don't want to like reassign each NSImageView to the application support folder in code, unfortunately, since there's a ton of NSImageViews and alot of code to write if I do it that way. Is there any way to tell the nib file that there is a resources folder that's not inside the application bundle where it can load images from?

Answer 1

Why not just use the setImage: method on NSImageView and do it all in code? Then your images can come from anywhere. You just have to get them into NSImage objects.