On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:19 , N!K wrote:
> The reason I ask if a window controller is necessary is that I do not plan to
> manipulate the window at all. Once it's open, I will leave it alone while
> "drawing within" the views until quitting. Also, I will not be manipulating
> the views as a whole.
On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:19 AM, N!K wrote:
> What I'm trying to do is really very simple. I want a pushbutton to seek data
> input for the model (easily done). Then I want a pushbutton to display two
> different views of the data.
The pushbutton sets a flag indicating which view of the data shou
Thank you. This helps me with higher level issues
On Sep 5, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 20:43 , N!K wrote:
>
>> The examples I've seen all show a window with a view in it and how to draw
>> in that view. But I want to put up a window with a couple of views in
On Sep 5, 2011, at 20:43 , N!K wrote:
> The examples I've seen all show a window with a view in it and how to draw in
> that view. But I want to put up a window with a couple of views in it and
> draw in them individually, sometimes clearing and redrawing, sometimes adding
> more drawing.
You
Thanks for the description below. It's good.
I, too, am floundering when it comes to specifics that are not shown in
examples from Apple or BNR books or websites. I understand the examples, but I
don't see how to extend them. So, understanding how the windows and views
should be structured to
Thanks!
On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:32 AM, William Squires wrote:
>
>> While I can create the UI easily enough in IB, what I don't understand is
>> how to actually load, instantiate, and display the window from my view
>> controller object.
>
> A c
On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:32 AM, William Squires wrote:
> While I can create the UI easily enough in IB, what I don't understand is how
> to actually load, instantiate, and display the window from my view controller
> object.
A common approach is to:
* Create a custom subclass of NSWindowControlle
On Sep 5, 2011, at 9:32 AM, William Squires wrote:
> Okay, I'm having a tizzy here. Most of the '...learn MacOS X...' programming
> books gloss over the nitty-gritty of actually creating and displaying various
> windows, either assuming they're going to be document windows (as part of a
> docum
Okay, I'm having a tizzy here. Most of the '...learn MacOS X...' programming
books gloss over the nitty-gritty of actually creating and displaying various
windows, either assuming they're going to be document windows (as part of a
document-based app), or they're just there as part of an example
