Thanks, Ken!
On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Howard Moon wrote:
>
>> I've added a Panel to a nib for an audio plug-in I'm working on, and am
>> having trouble determining how the IB Inspector settings relate to the
>> actual objects, such as an NSPanel. In the Inspector, there are several
>> Style Mask checkboxes:
>>
>> Utility
>> HUD
>> Non Activating
>> Document Modal.
>>
>> What do those mean? The tool tip for those says they relate to the
>> member styleMask. Yet when I look up the NSWindow member styleMask, it
>> leads me to a link to the page "Window Style Masks", which lists the
>> following values:
>>
>> NSBorderlessWindowMask
>> NSTitledWindowMask
>> NSClosableWindowMask
>> NSMiniaturizableWindowMask
>> NSResizeableWindowMask
>> NSTexturedBackgroundWindowMask
>>
>> I don't see what the relation between these is.
>
> Check the NSPanel class reference for additional style masks that only apply
> to panels.
I swear I looked at every single thing in the NSPanel reference, but I never
saw that! D'oh!
>
>
>> I'm trying to show a panel that I've loaded previously from my nib. I
>> don't want the panel to show until I want it, and I need to show it via code
>> (in an NSWindowController-derived class I created). But it either shows
>> when it loads, or it doesn't show at all (when calling showWindow:nil),
>> depending on whether I've checked the "Visible at Launch" checkbox in the IB
>> Inspector. I was hoping one of those "style mask" properties might be the
>> culprit, but I don't know what they do.
>
> My guess is that you forgot to set the window property of the window
> controller. That's why -showWindow: isn't doing anything. Check what the
> -window getter returns.
>
Yeah... that was it. I hadn't set the window property in IB.
> If the window is loaded from a standalone NIB, the window controller should
> typically be loading the NIB; it should specify itself as the owner of the
> NIB; in the NIB, the class of File's Owner should be set to your window
> controller class; and you should connect the "window" outlet of File's Owner
> to the window.
>
Yep, that's what I'm doing now, and it's working.
Thanks!
-Howard
> Regards,
> Ken
>
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