On 28 Dec 2013, at 18:48, Trygve Inda <cocoa...@xericdesign.com> wrote:
>> >> On 27 Dec 2013, at 13:52, Trygve Inda <cocoa...@xericdesign.com> wrote: >> >>> I have a document with a SourceView on the left side (like iTunes). Some >>> main menu commands pertain to actions in the Source View. This works fine if >>> the SourceView is the active view but my window has other views held in a >>> SplitView. >>> >>> If a sibling of the SourceView is active, the SourceView is not in the >>> responder chain and thus my menu commands are greyed out. >>> >>> How can I keep a sibling view in the responder chain? >>> >>> The alternative is I have to re-create "passthrough" methods in my Document >>> object that pass the real action through to the SourveView since the >>> Document object always is part of the Responder Chain. >> >> That’s what I usually do. Alternately, if I have a view controller for the >> source view, I use setNextResponder: to insert the view controller in the >> responder chain somewhere farther up. >> >> Cheers, >> -- Uli Kusterer >> “The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...” >> http://zathras.de >> >> > > Can you give an example of how you do that? I guess I'd want it right after > my document controller. Do I need to walk the list looking for my document > controller? > > Or just do: > > [[document windowController] setNextResponder:sourceViewController] > > Trygve Well, you’ll also want to give the document a shot, so sourceViewController.nextResponder = document.windowController.nextResponder; document.windowController.nextResponder = sourceViewController; That way you insert between the window controller and the document. For window controllers without a document, the next responder is usually the application, IIRC, so you don’t want to sever the chain. That said, the supplemental target thing someone else suggested sounds like a nice and clean way of doing it that I haven’t tried yet. Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer “The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...” http://zathras.de _______________________________________________ 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
