On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Harry Plate wrote:

> I am writing a plugin to another application, and I must manage my own NIBs.

> But, what I am having trouble with is communicating with "File's Owner".
> When I instantiate the NIB, I pass my class as owner - then when the
> controller is called via -awakeFromNib, I need to communicate with that
> class to get some additional information.
> 
> How is that done?

If I'm understanding what you're asking, the answer is that the class of your 
controller needs to declare an outlet.  In the NIB, you connect that outlet to 
File's Owner.  By the time of -awakeFromNib, the outlet will have been set and 
will point to the object which owns the NIB.

Cheers,
Ken

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