Many thanks to Graham, Gunnar, and mmalc for your time. I will study and learn from your comments.
Since Gunnar mentioned it: I'm currently working through the first half of Hillegass's book. I assigned myself this exercise to clarify encoding and archiving; it seems to have revealed other (large) gaps in my understanding. gr. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:10 PM, mmalc Crawford <mmalc_li...@me.com> wrote: > > On May 11, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Gabriel Roth wrote: > > >> The app contains just one class (besides MyDocument), called >> AppController. The code for AppController is pasted below, followed by >> console output. >> > Apart from issues others have already identified: > > You almost certainly shouldn't be encoding/archiving this object. > You're combining a model and a controller object. > > Given that you have a document class (which serves as a controller), there > shouldn't be any need for an additional AppController class. > If you want to save a string in a document-based application, then implement > the relevant NSDocument methods (e.g. dataOfType:error:). > > You should review the Document-Based Applications Guide, in particular > <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Documents/Concepts/RolesOfDocObjects.html>. > Review also > <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaDesignPatterns/CocoaDesignPatterns.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002974-CH6-SW1>. > > mmalc > > _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
