On Aug 4, 2010, at 20:18, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Aug 4, 2010, at 19:48, Gideon King wrote: > >> 1. User initiates import of file of type "fred" >> 2. I pick that up in -readFromURL:ofType:error:, and spawn a process which >> converts files of type "fred" to type "myfiletype", the native file type of >> the application. Let's say that it is stored in a file called >> /MyImports/file.mytype. >> 3. Still in -readFromURL:ofType:error:, I call super, telling it to load the >> converted file, and then call [self setFileURL:nil]; [self >> setFileType:@"myfiletype"]; > > I don't have any answers, but I was going to contribute some questions, then > I realized that I don't quite understand the above. Apologies if you > explained this in your original post. > > What's the mechanism that gets to step 1 in the above -- File | New? File | > Open? File | Import? (Meaning, by the first two, the standard actions that > get dispatched to NSDocumentController.) > > I assumed, from your statement that readFromURL:ofType:error: is invoked, > that this was coming from a File | Open of the file to be converted. Is the > file needing conversion a Core Data store? Or a non-Core Data file of some > kind? (If the latter, I'm not sure why you think its safe to use > NSPersistentDocument.)
One other preliminary question: Am I correct in assuming that the intention of setting fileURL to nil is to (in effect) make the imported document untitled, so that the user will be asked for a location to save it, at the next save? _______________________________________________ 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
