implicitly creating custom views in Gorm?

[e.sammer]

all:

i'm working on a project that contains a number of NSBundle objects. 
each bundle contains 2 or more nibs (or models). each nib has been 
created in Interface Builder on macos 10.1. the problem is that in IB, i 
can drag an NSCustomView from the palette to the object window to create 
an implicit custom view. the reason i'm not physically subclassing 
NSView and implementing -drawRect: is because the custom view is really 
just a grouping of standard controls (specifcally, an NSBox that 
contains a number of controls). this view is then inserted and updated 
by displaying itself in either a window, panel, or another NSBox when 
the bundle is loaded.

after a quick test, it seems that one may not drag the NSCustomView item 
into the object palette in Gorm. is this "feature" something that anyone 
else uses? i'd rather not have to create all of my controls 
programatically. if i convert my nibs to gmodels on my osx box and 
transfer them to my linux dev box, the code compiles clean, but at 
runtime, it throws an NSInvalidArgumentException and displays the following:

Uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException, reason: addSubview: 
creates a loop in the views tree!

as a side note, this works perfectly on macosx...

any info or suggestions are appreciated!

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eric.sammer
eric@lifeless.net