On May 17, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > JAMES ROGERS <jimrogers_w4...@me.com> writes: > >> I am a cocoa developer, albeit a new one. So I have every right to >> post this question on this site.
I think Joanna can be forgiven for an honest misunderstanding. >> Thank you very much, but clicking on >> the application in the dock does not work in my case. Yes it does. It brings your app back to the foreground, which is the literal question you asked. >> That would be a >> rather obvious answer and one of the many things I tried. Based on >> some of the web guru sites, I am not the first to pose this question >> and a not willing to accept the answer I see most, "that is the way >> Mac works". I agree, that is not the right answer. [...] > Now, it's up to the application to leave a mean to resume working when > all the windows are closed. The way it's done depends on the > application, but the only thing that will remain after all the windows > are closed or hidden, for the user to command the application, is the > menus. > > So you should have an item in a menu that will order an action, such as > the opening of a new window. It is often with the menu File, item > Open... that the user will be able to open a new document window to > resume working with the application. In a document-based application the default is to create a new untitled window. You can tell it not to by implementing applicationShouldHandleReopen:hasVisibleWindows: in the app delegate. But it sounds like your app is not document-based. > But some applications are not document centered. You may propose a > menu Game / item "New Game", or a menu Activity / item "New Processing" > or whatever. Yup. Or if there is a specific singleton window, and it lives in MainMenu.nib, you can simply connect the menu item to it in IB with an action of makeKeyAndOrderFront:. In this case make sure to uncheck the "Release When Closed" checkbox, so the window instance doesn't get prematurely deallocated. Also you can implement the applicationShouldHandleReopen:hasVisibleWindows: method mentioned above to automatically reopen the window, if you prefer. --Andy _______________________________________________ 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
