On Mar 9, 2015, at 04:53, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote: > > >> On 9 Mar 2015, at 15:38, Patrick J. Collins <patr...@collinatorstudios.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> It was recently suggested to me that my app should be a document based >> architecture design since I want File -> Open -> <select file> to bring up a >> new >> "document" window. Googling this topic has been a bit frustrating... I >> see lots of references in apple's documentation saying things like "The >> Xcode development application provides project templates for >> document-based applications." Which I cannot find anywhere in XCode... >> >> Can anyone please shed some light on where I can get real-world instructions >> on how to setup this sort of design? >> >> Thanks. >> > > File->New->Project > > Select Application -> Cocoa Application > > On the following sheets is a checkbox for 'create document-based > application'. Check that. > > That's the easiest way to start, although it's also not very hard to add > document capabilities to a standard cocoa GUI app if you want (and looking at > the generated code from the template shows you pretty much what you have to > do).
Figure 3-1 in The Document-Based App Programming Guide for Mac illustrates this: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DataManagement/Conceptual/DocBasedAppProgrammingGuideForOSX/Art/newproject_2x.png Make sure you read that guide: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DataManagement/Conceptual/DocBasedAppProgrammingGuideForOSX/Introduction/Introduction.html _______________________________________________ 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
