Efficiently Access numerous Cocoa Controls - objective-c

Question

I have an interface that has large numbers of controls, see image below.
Interface http://www.richardstelling.com/hosted/cocoainterface.png
What is the best way to access these, creating 288 IBOutlets in my AppController class and linking them all up seems inefficient.
I looked at forms, but they seemed to simplistic.
This is a proof-of-concept and will not ship so I'm open to any ideas. One caveat however I have to use Objective-C as the final product will be written in Objective-C/Cocoa.
NB:
The interface is static
Smaller boxed will hold integers (0-255)

Answer 1

You should look into NSMatrix. This is exactly what it's designed to solve.

Answer 2

NSTableView looks like the UI you need. The visual rendering will be a bit different but it will look more 'Mac'.

Answer 3

Either NSMatrix, as Rob suggests, or re-think the UI so you have fewer controls on it :-)

Answer 4

You could build the entire interface programmatically, with a few lines of code in a loop:
const int numRows = 11;
const int rowWidth = 400;
const int rowHeight = 20;
const int itemSpacing = 5;
const int nameFieldWidth = 120;
const int smallFieldWidth = 30;
NSMutableArray * rowList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:numRows];
int rowIndex;
NSRect rowFrame = [controlView bounds];
rowFrame.origin.y = rowFrame.size.height - rowHeight;
rowFrame.size.height = rowHeight;
NSRect itemRect
for (rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < 11; rowIndex++)
{
// create a new controller for the current row
MyRowController * rowController = [[MyRowController alloc] init];
[rowList addObject:rowController];
[rowController release];
// create and link the checkbox
itemRect = rowFrame;
itemRect.size.width = 20;
NSButton * checkBox = [[NSButton alloc] initWithFrame:itemRect];
[controlView addSubview:checkBox];
[rowController setCheckBox:checkBox];
[checkBox release];
// create and link the name field
itemRect.origin.x += itemRect.size.width + itemSpacing;
itemRect.size.width = nameFieldWidth;
NSTextField * nameField = [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:itemRect];
[controlView addSubview:nameField];
[rowController setNameField:nameField];
[nameField release];
// create and link the smaller fields
itemRect.origin.x += itemRect.size.width + itemSpacing;
itemRect.size.width = smallFieldWidth;
NSTextField * smallField_1 = [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:itemRect];
[controlView addSubview:smallField_1];
[rowController setSmallField_1:smallField_1];
[smallField_1 release];
//.. continue for each item in a row ..
// increment the main rectangle for the next loop
rowFrame.origin.y -= (rowFrame.size.height + itemSpacing);
}