Is it possible to design NSCell subclasses in Interface Builder?

Question

I\'m trying to subclass NSCell for use in a NSTableView. The cell I want to create is fairly complicated so it would be very useful if I could design it in Interface Builder

Answer 1

I want to provide a more modern approach here.

Starting with iOS 5, UITableView has a method

(void)registerNib:(UINib *)nib forCellReuseIdentifier:(NSString *)identifier

Once you registered your NIB containing your cell, just use

- (id)dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:(NSString *)identifier

to get a new cell. If a cell is available for reuse, it will be returned, otherwise a new cell is automatically created, and in that case this means loaded from the NIB file.