NSView Subviews

In a custom NSView, when building up a list of subviews, it is typical to call the addSubview function once for each subview. A neater way to do this is to just set the subviews array directly. The NSView internals are clever enough to do any of the extra book-keeping required, just as if you had called addSubview each time.

For example:

let titleView = NSTextField(…)
let detailText = NSTextField(…)
let saveButton = NSButton(…)

subviews = [titleView, detailText, saveButton]

I like this because it’s a little more concise, and it also reminds me to think about the order of the subviews. Thanks to Jeff Nadeau for pointing this out on Twitter!