iPhone Sdk: Is it possible to add an UIImageView as a file!?

Question

Hi everyone, i was just wondering wether it is possible to add an uiimageview as a .m and .h class file because you can just choose a subclass from uiview or uitableviewcell in apple's templates and it than automatically creates the .m and .h files. Is there a way to do the same for an UIImageView or is it possible to somehow "turn" the UIView into an imageview?

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You could create you own subclass of UIImageView, yes. And if you're very brave, you could also create your own subclass of UIView as well, that would take a UIImage and paint that in it's -(void)drawRect: method. Then it would be much like a UIImageView.

But, why would you?

edit subclassing UIImageView is easiest by starting with the UIView subclass template, and then just replacing the word UIView with UIImageView, so you get:

@interface UIImageViewPlus : UIImageView {
    // ...
}

That's all there is to it, now just use UIImageViewPlus wherever you would use UIImageView.

Answer 2

UIImageView is a UIView since it inherits directly from UIView so I'm not sure what you are asking about.....you can easily create a subclass of the UIImageView to do whatever customization you require....