> On Jan 4, 2017, at 7:16 PM, Quincey Morris > <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2017, at 14:11 , Jean-Daniel <mail...@xenonium.com> wrote: >> >> When using storyboard, the only way to instantiate window is by getting a >> reference to the window controller (by using >> -instantiateControllerWithIdentifier:), so it should not be an issue. > > The problem I was referring to is when the window [scene] is in the initial > controller. There’s no way (AFAIK) that you can statically set up a reference > to the WC in any combination of IB/code, and of course the storyboard > instantiation is not in your code. > > Again AFAIK, you can get a reference to this WC from the window, and you can > get the [main] window from the NSApplication object, or from a view > controller’s view, but all of these things require you to defer getting the > reference until the objects are created and functional. > > Or, you can subclass NSWindowController, and have the windowDidLoad override > add a controller reference to data structures somewhere. > > But I think the old days when the template project provided a window > controller property on the app delegate for you are gone. > > Of course, I’d be extremely happy to be wrong about this. (I assume the tea > leaves indicate that window controllers are on the way out, so don’t get too > used to them.)
Why would they go away, since they’re part of the document system (with NSDocument and NSDocumentController). The first thing I do with the default document-based project is to factor out the window (controller) code and storyboard out of the Document class and Main storyboard to separate files. Easier to handle early in case I add more code. One big question I had was how to remove the window (controller) reference. I think there’s an NSNotification whenever a window closes; do I have to use that (or the equivalent window delegate method) to flag when to remove the pointer from my collection object (or set the single reference to NIL)? — Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT mac DOT com _______________________________________________ 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
