Auto Save and Versions is a good feature for my document-based app. But a large group of users keep all of their data in one document, and having to think about a document is a poor experience and has contributed to bad reviews by these users. So I am making a "lite" version of the app for these users which, among other things, will appear to the user as a shoebox app (not document-based).
I've chosen to continue using the document architecture under the hood, though, and simply hide the document-ness from the user. I think this reduces the development and maintenance cost for the shoebox app by 90%. (Actually, both apps are going to ship with almost all of the same code and resources.) As a bonus, the shoebox app will have Apple's familiar Auto Save and Versions in the title bar. One issue which I ran into is that the Auto Save / Versions menu which appears when the user clicks the disclosure triangle in the title bar looks like this… Rename… Move To… Duplicate Lock Revert to… Last Opened Browse All Versions… Arghh. The first 3-4 items are not applicable to a shoebox app. I've found that I can eliminate the items I don't want by overriding -menuNeedsUpdate: in my document subclass, but this is kind of fragile because I had to reverse-engineer which menu items to delete based on their actions (selectors). These selectors are Apple implementation detail. The fact that the document is the delegate for that menu, and thus the fact that -menuNeedsUpdate: even gets invoked, is probably an implementation detail also. I've decided that the benefits outweigh the risks, and am proceeding. (The worst-case outcome is that those top menu items will reappear in, say, Mac OS X 10.10, but clicking them won't have any effect.) Does anyone know a better way to do this? Thank you, Jerry Krinock _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
