NSPersistent Document but probably a Bindings Noobie Cry for Help

2008-12-31 Thread Richard Ashwell
Ok, First this is cry for help. Second I suck at the cocoa dev thing so I anticipate that I won't even describe this very well, please forgive my lack of skill in Cocoa Dev, but here goes: I have built a relatively complex application, but have dug a whole I can't fix or dig out of. I

Re: NSPersistent Document but probably a Bindings Noobie Cry for Help

2008-12-31 Thread Quincey Morris
On Dec 31, 2008, at 11:58, Richard Ashwell wrote: 4) The next task was based on a selection in the database table, I wanted to programatically open a document and pre populate it from the data. It's not clear what you mean by programmatically open a document. Are you invoking the same

Re: NSPersistent Document but probably a Bindings Noobie Cry for Help

2008-12-31 Thread Richard Ashwell
Ok some more details: I removed the subclassing of NSTextView entirely just to eliminate that as any sort of source for the problem so now: In my document nib I have a regular NSTextView, bound via IBOutlet to a variable in the document class. However still the NSTextView only responds

Re: NSPersistent Document but probably a Bindings Noobie Cry for Help

2008-12-31 Thread Richard Ashwell
Quincy thanks for your reply, ok I was going to start sending you tons of little snipits from my code, and I had the whole email, typed but decided to reread your comments carefully. In a nutshell: 1) I am/was creating my document class programatically like: (Note Typed in email, and in

Re: NSPersistent Document but probably a Bindings Noobie Cry for Help

2008-12-31 Thread Richard Ashwell
More details: Ok I, I think I have a lot to learn before I can call [NSDocumentController openUntitledDocumentAndDisplay:error], in the mean time I pulled out the extra call to makeWindowControllers and traced, When the document gets create via the New menu item the makeWindowControllers

Re: NSPersistent Document but probably a Bindings Noobie Cry for Help

2008-12-31 Thread Quincey Morris
On Dec 31, 2008, at 13:49, Richard Ashwell wrote: 1) I am/was creating my document class programatically like: (Note Typed in email, and in my project MyDocument is actually named something else) MyDocument *newDoc = [[MyDocument alloc] init]; [newDoc importData:data]; Not so good.

Re: NSPersistent Document but probably a Bindings Noobie Cry for Help

2008-12-31 Thread Brandon Walkin
If you're looking at the same split view as I am (main window), it appears that they're just using a horizontal split view as the right subview in a vertical split view. There doesn't seem to be a resize handle that adjusts both directions. On 31-Dec-08, at 5:27 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:

Re: NSPersistent Document but probably a Bindings Noobie Cry for Help

2008-12-31 Thread Richard Ashwell
Sweet Sweet!!! Magic!!! the : NSError *error; MyDocument *newDoc = [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController] openUntitledDocumentAndDisplay: YES error: error]; was the key, thank you so much Quincey!!! This both instantiates and lets me controll what is created!