On Thu, Sep 22, 2016, at 02:47 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:34 , Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote: > > > > -close asks the window’s delegate (via -windowShouldClose:) if it should > > close. If the window is owned by a window controller that’s associated > > with a document, the document will also get a chance to weigh in via > > -shouldCloseWindowController:…. It will also send > > NSWindowWillCloseNotification. > > > > -orderOut: just hides the window (removes it from the window list). You > > can always order it back in again later. > > Yes, but ignore for a moment the “shouldClose…” interaction, and assume > the window is NOT set to release on close. What *else* does “close” do > vs. “orderOut”?
This question sounds vaguely similar to “What have the Romans done for us?” from Life of Brian. ;-) > > The example app mentioned in this thread demonstrates that “close” has > some other effect beyond what “orderOut” does. In particular, a > “single”-mode storyboard segue re-uses an ordered-out window, but not a > closed one. I must first admit, especially for the benefit of anyone who read the documentation after I replied to you, that I was mistaken. -shouldCloseWindowController: and -windowShouldClose: are only sent from -performClose:, not from -close. Which makes sense: -close is the unconditional way for an app (that might have even implemented its own confirmation flow) to close a window. Having made my apologies, -orderOut: and -close live at two levels of abstraction. -orderOut deals with the window’s order and membership in the window list. -close deals with higher-level semantics like window controllers, documents, and notifications. As part of these higher-level semantics, -close calls -orderOut:. For document-based apps, it also dissociates the window from the document (and the window controller the document made for it). And as Eric has discovered, it instructs the Storyboard runtime to create a new instance of the window controller rather than unhiding the existing one. (-close used to render windows more thoroughly dead in the era of releaseWhenClosed and one-shot backing stores. But those days are in the past.) --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ 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
