On Jul 5, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
On Jul 5, 2008, at 8:30 AM, John Joyce wrote:
In my application, I would like to give my users the option to
choose various interface styles.
I've laid out my interface using a standard NSPanel as well as the
HUD version. Both are suitable, but some users will prefer one over
the other, of course.
Currently, I have both windows in one NIB.
Is there a way to choose which window is loaded from the NIB?
Is it possible to do this without losing the data in the document?
(it is document based)
Would it be better/more practical to factor these into two
different NIBs?
Yes. Refactor your interface into two nibs, where each nib is owned
by an NSWindowController rather than by an NSDocument subclass.
Then you can override -[NSDocument makeWindowControllers] in your
NSDocument subclass to instantiate whichever NSWindowController is
initially appropriate, and when you want to "switch" interface
styles you can use -[NSDocument addWindowController:] and -
[NSDocument removeWindowController:] to get rid of the old and add
the new.
-- Chris
Thanks Chris, this leads me pretty much where I suspected I would end
up going.
One other thing, does this mean I need to subclass NSWindowController
as well?
Or simply create instances of the default NSWindowController and feed
them as necessary?
Either way, from my NSDocument subclass (MyDocument as usual) I should
be able to instantiate more than one window controller, and then load
my respective NIBs by [NSDocument addWindowController:aWindowController]
Will adding a window controller release / close the current window?
Clearly, I'm heading down the path of becoming more acquainted with
NSWindowController, which seems inevitable if one wishes to do
interesting things with the interface. I figured as much. Perhaps this
means I'm beginning to grasp more of the AppKit.
It does look like it will take a little experimentation to get
precisely what I want, but that's cool, it means I will be more aware
of how to do interesting things!
-- John Joyce
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