Speculation: This may be like the -window property of NSWindowController. Accessing it is the recommended way to force the controller to instantiate the window, even if you don’t care about the result.
In this case, _you_ may not care what super’s NSSplitViewDelegate methods do, but NSSplitViewController needs to hear about the events they represent. — F On 7 Aug 2015, at 2:33 PM, Bill Cheeseman <wjcheese...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've always been comfortable calling super when it doesn't return a result, > or when I am expected to use super's result for some purpose in my override. > But it feels very bizarre to be calling a super implementation and doing > nothing with whatever result it returns. _______________________________________________ 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