Thanks Andy, Jon, Kirk, Murat and everyone who responded.
All your advices were very usefull.
I decided to use the delegate pattern and everything is working
perfectly now. In fact I am starting to be able to implement sevall of
my planed funcionalities just by adding messages to my working
Maybe I'm missing your point but the compiler warning is trivial to address.
- [NSWindowController document] returns an id. If you want to call methods in
your document class,
CarlosDocument * doc = (CarlosDocument*) [windowController document];
[doc carlosMethod];
However if your views are cal
Sorry, the forward declarations go in your .h files. You still have to import
your MyDocument.h in your implementation files (ie. your CustomView.m files).
What warnings are you getting?
As far as your nil document problem, I don't know. I suspect something is not
setup correctly.
In your code
I would use the delegate pattern. Look at some Cocoa classes that have delegates to get the idea of
the general pattern. Examples: NSTableView, NSControl, NSURLConnection. My app, AppKiDo, provides
an easy way to list classes that have delegates, and to skim the delegate methods. You could also
On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:46 PM, mlist0...@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Carlos Eduardo Mello wrote:
I need to declare an instance of MyDocument inside my view's
classes. The compiler won't let me do this unless I import
MyDocument to the class definitions.
you can use:
@cla
If I just query the window controler for the document on demand like
this:
[ [ [ [ self window ] windowController ] document refreshParameters ];
the code works, but I still can't get rid of those "message-not-
found" warnings:
One correction: calls without arguments seem to be ok like this
On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Carlos Eduardo Mello wrote:
> I need to declare an instance of MyDocument inside my view's classes. The
> compiler won't let me do this unless I import MyDocument to the class
> definitions.
you can use:
@class MyDocument;
in your .h file to forward declare MyDoc
Hi Everyone,
I am comming back to cocoa programming and to this list after a few
years without programming anything, so please forgive me in advance
for any stupid questions. I've read the docs, studied Hillegass's book
again and searched the archives, but still couldn't find a definitive
