On 21/07/2009, at 1:36 AM, Alexander Bokovikov wrote:
Hi, All,
I'm writing a simple (in GUI) application, where NSDocument is not
used. I use NSOpenPanel to get a file name, then process file and
close it. There is no UI, related to file, where NSDocument could
help significantly. At least I believe so.
My problem is that Recent menu is empty, because in Cocoa (AFAIK) it
is maintained automatically by NSDocumentController, which is absent
in my app. So, my question is - how to create and update the Open
Recent menu "manually"? Where to store its items? How to populate
this submenu when my app is loaded?
Or should I use NSDocumentController anyway?
If your app isn't document based, it might complicate things too much
to have an NSDocumentController there (which is a global/singleton).
Handling a recent items menu is pretty straightforward though - just
keep a list of the <n> most recent file paths you opened in an array
and use a menu delegate to update the menu from this. For extra
credit, check the validity/existence of the file when updating the
menu and remove bad ones and disambiguate duplicates. Someone might
have written a class to do this already.
The relevant functionality could go in the app's delegate or a
separate controller object with an outlet from the app's delegate.
--Graham
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