Thank you! I'm trying your suggestions now.
Bruce On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Jan 27, 2011, at 17:10, Bruce Cresanta wrote: > >> I have an NSDocument instance in my IB! It was the only way I could >> hook up a connection to a controlView for the window that gets created for >> the document. >> >> Do you know a way to programmatically retrieve the controlView for the >> window that gets created for the document? >> This would enable me to forget IB altogether, which is not a problem because >> I'm using all custom controls written from scratch. > > What's the NIB's File's Owner object? The document, or a window controller? > > If the document, you can connect NIB objects directly to the File's Owner > proxy. (Make sure you set it to the correct NSDocument subclass in IB's > Identity panel.) > > If the window controller, you should probably be doing all this stuff in the > window controller instead. Note, though, that a window controller has a > "document" property which allows you to get to the document through it. > > If your controls are all custom code, they can find the document directly (as > 'self.window.windowController.document'), provided that the controls have > already been added to a view that's been already added to the window. You may > not need to create any outlets at all. > _______________________________________________ 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
