JAMES ROGERS <jimrogers_w4...@me.com> writes: > I am a cocoa developer, albeit a new one. So I have every right to > post this question on this site. Thank you very much, but clicking on > the application in the dock does not work in my case. That would be a > rather obvious answer and one of the many things I tried. Based on > some of the web guru sites, I am not the first to pose this question > and a not willing to accept the answer I see most, "that is the way > Mac works". That is why I came to this site, as a last resort.
The red button on windows doesn't impact the application (unless it's so programmed), but only the window. It sends the windowShouldClose: message to the window or window delegate, and if it doesn't return NO, it sends the message close: to the window. (The application could override -[NSWindow close:] and do something else, or could return NO from windowShouldClose: and do something else (eg. hidding the window) instead.) Now, it's up to the application to leave a mean to resume working when all the windows are closed. The way it's done depends on the application, but the only thing that will remain after all the windows are closed or hidden, for the user to command the application, is the menus. So you should have an item in a menu that will order an action, such as the opening of a new window. It is often with the menu File, item Open... that the user will be able to open a new document window to resume working with the application. But some applications are not document centered. You may propose a menu Game / item "New Game", or a menu Activity / item "New Processing" or whatever. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. _______________________________________________ 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
