> On 16 Feb 2015, at 18:39, Bill Cheeseman <wjcheese...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Although I follow Mike Ash's advice, I have separate MainMenu.xib and > MainWindow.xib files instead of a single window.xib file. My MainMenu.xib > contains the application's menu bar but no window. MainMenu.xib is owned by > NSApplication, and NSApplication's delegate outlet is connected to my > AppDelegate object, which is included in MainMenu.xib. MainMenu.xib is > loaded, its included AppDelegate object is instantiated, and its > applicationDidFinishLaunching delegate method is called, all automatically at > launch due to the way the standard Main file works. My AppDelegate class > implements NSApplicationDelegate protocol methods as needed, and it handles a > few other things that are of application-wide relevance. It tends to be > fairly small and simple. Same as I have. > Because MainMenu.xib contains no window, the application has a menu bar but > nothing else up to the point where AppDelegate's > applicationDidFinishLaunching delegate method is called. The window is > contained in MainWindow.xib, which is owned by my MainWindowController class. > The applicationDidFinishLaunching delegate method in AppDelegate loads > MainWindow.xib by calling initWithWindowNibName (I don't buy Mike's advice to > declare a simple init method), and at this point the application has both a > menu bar and a window. The window's Visible At Launch behavior is set in > MainWindow.xib, so the window appears when the application is launched and > MainWindow.xib is loaded, without having to call showWindow (or you can just > call showWindow). In AppDelegate's applicationDidFinishLaunching delegate > method, I set the AppDelegate's mainWindowController and window instance > variables to the new window controller and to its new window, so that the > AppDelegate can refer to them as needed. This is slightly different that I have an Outlet defined in the MainMenu.xib file which is set to LTWMainWindowController and I do use a simple init method inside of LTWMainWindowController that calls initWithWindowNibName with @“LTWMainWindow”. > > The MainWindowController implements the outlets and action methods and any > delegate methods for the window and all or most of its buttons and other UI > elements. It can refer to the menu bar and other things in the AppDelegate as > needed by calling NSApp.delegate. In turn, AppDelegate can refer to the > window, its UI elements, and the window controller as needed by using > AppDelegte's instance variables for them. > Thanks again, I think I’ve got it now! Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
