Re: Visible at launch time?
Re: Visible at launch time?
- Subject: Re: Visible at launch time?
- From: Vince DeMarco <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:58:10 -0800
On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 05:41 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
Interface Builder's NSWindow Info Panel contains an Option called "Visible
at launch time." I once thought I understood what it does, but I'm no
longer
sure. Can somebody explain it authoritatively? I would particularly like
to
know what method or instance variable, or whatever, it is associated with.
That this does is after the nib file is loaded into memory and all of the
connections have been established the windows in the nib file that have
the "Visible at launch time" flag turned on are ordered front.
The current documentation for IB Info Panel settings is not helpful about
what this or any other attribute stands for. The only mention of it that
I
can find is a passage in the Currency Converter example in "Learning
Cocoa"
admonishing us to set the Option -- without explaining why.
Google led me to old stuff, which I had hoped would be more helpful. The
OpenStep Tools & Techniques book states that, if set, it causes a window
to
open when its nib file is opened. A similar passage in the NextStep 3.3
Interface Builder document states that it causes a window to open when the
application is launched. It seems to me that these two statements are not
necessarily consistent. Or at least they don't seem to describe the same
phenomenon.
The two statements are not consistent the OpenSteps Tools & Techiniques
books is correct.
Can you please file a bug against the documentation???
The flag should really be changed to visible at nib load time.
vince