How to create a Custom UIView and How to instantiate that ?

Question

How to create a Custom UIView and How to instantiate that ?
In Flash, all we need to do is create a MovieClip and assign it a class name in the library.
Instantiation is a simple matter of:
var newclass:CustomClass = new CustomClass({initialization_data:1652});
addChild(newclass);
At this current point in time, my understanding of creating custom UIView in xcode is limited to the understanding that you have to:
1: Forward declare the class in the header.
2:
]newclass *CustomClass in @interface's {}
and THEN
@property (nonatomic, retain) newclass *CustomClass;
in the header file also.
3: Nib initialization in the implementation file in viewDidLoad and do "addSubview".
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Based on my limited understanding at this point, I find the need to
@property (nonatomic, retain) newclass *CustomClass;
at the header somewhat limiting...as it denotes you must know how many instance you will create in the application before hand.
I believe I am wrong here, hence, my question is, how do I add custom UIViews with initialization codes in real time ?

Answer 1

hi,
one workaround i could think of is using the CM views to search for content that belongs to a category and display it in a custom way.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/html/plsqldoc/pldoc904/wwsbr_api_view.html
this only allows you to search for the meta-data available in the CM views but not the content of an item that is available when doing a search.
in the next major portal release we will have a publich search API that can be used for these type of requirements. you can execute your search and format the results in the way you want.
regards,
christian