On Feb 14, 2017, at 00:26 , Daryle Walker <dary...@mac.com> wrote: > > But I can’t call the “super” versions of those other initializers from within > my override.
This is the essence of your problem. Your “override” cannot be a convenience initializer because convenience initializers cannot call “up” to the superclass, and it cannot be a designated initializer because designated initializers cannot call convenience initializers. For one solution, see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38908902/overwriting-nsdocuments-initcontentsofoftype-in-swift <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38908902/overwriting-nsdocuments-initcontentsofoftype-in-swift> Answering the same question in another way, look at the comments for init(type:) in the NSDocument header file: > "Initialize a new empty document of a specified type, and return it if > successful. If not successful, return nil after setting *outError to an > NSError that encapsulates the reason why the document could not be > initialized. The default implementation of this method just invokes [self > init] and [self setFileType:typeName].” This tells you exactly what the superclass convenience initializer does, and the fact that it’s in the header file makes the behavior a public API contract. So, you are allowed to implement your own subclass convenience initializer (that throws) which does *not* invoke super, but simply does what the super method is documented to do. (That’s basically the solution given on Stack Overflow.) _______________________________________________ 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