Newbie: Getting an NSWindow and setting its delegate
Newbie: Getting an NSWindow and setting its delegate
- Subject: Newbie: Getting an NSWindow and setting its delegate
- From: Martin Linklater <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:05:22 +0100
Apologies for a real Newbie question.
I'm going through Aaron Hillegass's book 'Cocoa Programming for Mac
OSX' and I'm stuck on the challenge at the end of chapter 5. The
challenge is this:
'Create a new application with one window. Make an object that is a
delegate of the Window. As the user resizes the window, make sure
that the window always remains twice as tall as it is wide.'
My problem is that I don't quite know how to approach the problem.
I've tried two approaches so far, both of which seem to fail:
1) Try to set the delegate of the default Window which is created
when I create the project. Problem is, IB doesn't let me Control-drag
from the window to my AppController class. I tried to set the windows
delegete in code, but although I can see the 'setDelegate' method for
NSWindow in the docs I don't know how to actually get a pointer to
the window to begin with... How do you 'find' a pointer to the
default NSWindow object that is created with the project ?
2) Subclass the NSWindow object and use my own window. I've deleted
the instance of the standard window from IB, but IB isn't letting me
instantiate my own class... It lets me create a subclass of NSWindow
and create the source files for it, but the 'Instantiate this class'
menu option is greyed out. Why ? I've tried to create an instance of
my subclass in the AppController init method (using [[MyWindow alloc]
init] ), but that doesn't seem to create anything, and I can't tell
why. It's not throwing errors or anything, but it's not creating a
window either. I'm puzzled.
Can anyone point me in the right direction of how I complete this
challenge ? I'm not after an in-depth explanation or anything - just
a pointer to some docs or a few hints to get my brain working properly.
Thanks for any help you can give.
- Martin
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