[reidmain]

And you've listed about 90% of the things I usual end up subclassing because I've hit some limitation.

Also I wasn't talking specifically about UIKit. Foundation is another great framework that I've subclassed many times.

It's not perfect but Apple puts a lot of work into documenting how to subclass their frameworks. Third-party UI frameworks like this are much less forgiving.

[Zev]

Can you give an example of some things that you subclass?

[reidmain]

From Foundation? NSDictionary, NSArray and NSOperation instantly jump to mind.

[Zev]

What do you get out of subclassing NSDictionary or NSArray that you don't get out of a category?

[reidmain]

Well in this case I subclassed them so I could have the backing data source only weakly reference the items in the dictionary/array and because I subclassed them I can use them wherever NSDictionary or NSArray is an accepted parameter.

Apple's documentation also gives some examples:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa...

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa...

[Zev]

Why not use CFDictionaryRef and pass it along via toll-free bridging?

[reidmain]

I'm confused. How is that any easier? It's six of one, half dozen of the other.

I'd much prefer to write Objective-C code than pure C.