objective c - How build a custom control in Xcode for the iPhone SDK?

Question

I want to build a custom control to reuse in my project which consists of two UITextFields that are linked together + a label.

It is starting to become repetitive across my App and smells of code duplication ;)

However, I wonder what is the best aproach here.

Is it best do everything by code in a controller or is posible do a visual thing like the ones built-in in Xcode?

Answer 1

You can build an Interface Builder plug-in for this. It's fairly straight-forward. To get started, read the Interface Builder Plug-In Programming Guide. It even has a quick, step-by-step tutorial to get you started. Apple recommends creating a plug-in to IB for just your case...