Quincey,

        Presto.   The Files owner connections do the trick.    My program works 
flawlessly now.

Thank you!

Bruce

On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Bruce Cresanta wrote:

> 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.
>> 
> 
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