On 28 Jun 2008, at 12:38 am, John Love wrote:
[code snipped]
Finally, you nailed it, almost (one small bug, see below). Phew!
========
Okay ... all the snippets are done ... now, the questions:
(1) warning: no doSheetSelection:contextInfo method found which, I
think, is
due to the fact that the external class of mFileSheetDelegate =
FileController, yet when referenced in SaveSheetController, it's =
id, a
general pointer. But, I thought all anonymous pointers were
resolved at
runtime ... am I just going to force myself to ignore this Build
Warning,
knowing that it will all go away at runtime???
The reason for this is because the sheet controller is not aware of
your File Controller's methods. Nor should it be. So how to resolve
it? The answer is to declare the callback method as an informal
protocol *within SheetController.h* Thus:
@interface NSObject (SheetSelectionDelegate)
- (void) doSheetSelection:(int)returnCode contextInfo:
(void*)contextInfo;
@end
Now, your sheet controller does know that there is a method that has
this signature, so the warning will go away. But because the method is
defined as a category of NSObject, you still have avoided exposing
SheetController to the inner workings of your FileController. This is
the more precise, and correct meaning of "informal protocol", and
generally you implement them as categories on NSObject.
(2)I still get "unrecognized selector" .. but,
That's because you're targeting the wrong object. Here:
[NSApp beginSheet:[self window]
modalForWindow:parentWindow
modalDelegate:theTarget //
<---------------------- uh-oh
didEndSelector:@selector
(sheetDidEnd:returnCode:contextInfo:)
contextInfo:contextInfo];
You should be passing 'self', not 'theTarget' as modalDelegate. Why?
Because it is the sheet controller that is the modal delegate of the
*sheet*, which is what this specifies. The target is the delegate of
the sheet *controller*, so the sheet itself doesn't want this. You
already dealt with that by recording the target in your own ivar.
You have got to get these relationships straight in your mind. It's
not that hard. I've goaded and prompted you and written your code for
you piece by piece - that's great, it solves your problem. But has it
increased your understanding? I fear it hasn't, and it still all seems
like voodoo. I'm not sure what I can do about that.
cheers, Graham
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
