On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:02, Jason Bruce wrote: > My app is a presentation app for presenting trial exhibits in a court room. > The > main window of the app would consist of a tab view w/an NSTableView on one > tab > and an IKImageBrowserView on the second tab -- both bound to the same > nsarraycontroller. The filter window would be for each document only, and > would > be open just to create filters and then disappear. > > By clicking on a particular image in the image view or on a particular row in > the table view, the user could then open a third window with a IKImageView or > PDFView showing a particular image or pdf -- which could then be sent to an > external display or projector. > > So, 1 main window per document holding an array of images, with 1 window > which > may stay open for a period of time to display an image, and another window > which > will only appear for purposes of creating filters and filter the table and > then > disappear. > > So, at this point, if I had two documents open, I want to see 6 windows (3 > windows per document); not 1 filter window for all documents.
OK, that makes sense. FWIW, I'd recommend that your image browser windows and your image display window should be document-linked windows, and that the other window should not. Your document would initially open with its browser window in the normal way. There's actually no reason to disallow opening *multiple* image display windows for a single document, although your application may have independent reasons for limiting this to 1 image. (In that case, it's worth exploring the idea of making the image an extra pane of the browser window, rather than a separate window, but that's another discussion.) You would use 'addWindowController:' and 'removeWindowController:' to link the image window(s) to the document as discussed already. The filter window, since it's short-lived and specific to a single document, is probably better off as a sheet rather than a separate window, for UI reasons. Aside from that, passing the document as a parameter when creating its window controller seems appropriate, and I *wouldn't* suggest linking this window controller to the document via 'addWindowController:'. _______________________________________________ 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
