Visible at launch time?
Visible at launch time?
- Subject: Visible at launch time?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:41:35 -0500
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.
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.
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