On 3/10/09 11:44 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > On 11/03/2009, at 9:09 AM, Grant Erickson wrote: >> Suppose I were writing an application, perhaps similar to the >> example at >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming_Mac_OS_X_with_Cocoa_for_beginners/B >> uilding_a_GUI (or many of the examples in /Developer/Examples/...) >> that had >> no file-based interaction whatsoever but for which I wanted to allow >> the >> user to open up and interact with up to N windows. >> >> Using the example above, each newly-opened window perhaps displays >> something >> from quote of the day (QOTD) or some other singular random data source >> rather than "Hello World". >> >> It seems the document-based architecture is ill-suited to such an >> application because there is effectively no need to open, save, >> revert, >> print, etc. anything. >> >> Does anyone have any recommendation for examples, URLs or books that >> might >> discuss and illustrate such an application or the rough framework >> thereto? > > You can open as many windows as you want, they don't have to be > associated with documents. > > Each one can work in isolation, or if you need to, you can create your > own controller that keeps a list of "its" windows. > > Not sure I see what the problem is here...
Graham: No problem per se. I am simply looking for an example or "Best Practices When Eschewing NSDocumentController and Friends" guidance or documentation. Ken Thomases' response should get me headed off in the right direction. Regards, Grant _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
