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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble, Nate Chandler
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
556 pages
17h 47m
English
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Adding Tab Images

Finish out NerdTabViewController by adding individual images to the tab buttons for each view controller. The user will almost certainly enjoy being able to differentiate between the tabs.

To do this you need a way to tell the tab view controller what image to use for each tab. One approach would be to write methods for adding the child view controllers which take an image for the tab:

func addChildViewController(childViewController: NSViewController,
                                       tabImage: NSImage)

This would work, but it is not a great choice because it calls into question the fate of the existing addChildViewController(_:) method. Can it still be called? What happens if it is called? A future developer’s existing knowledge of NSViewController ...

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