Cocoa Design Question ..
Cocoa Design Question ..
- Subject: Cocoa Design Question ..
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:42:08 -0500
Hi All!
Well, I've done the various tutorials, etc. and now am ready to create
my first killer app for OS X / Cocoa! :-)
Of course, being a "real" application I've already run into about 100
different design questions.. However, what
I would like is some opinions from the gurus out there how to handle
this (what I think is) a pretty standard
cocoa design pattern..
The design pattern is such:
The application will have a "main" interface area .. sort of like
"iTunes" in that there are multiple "sources", and
each source contains a set of stuff. The stuff in this case are
documents.. specifically recipes .. So the main
window I want in the paradigm of a cook book (and there will be Table of
Content views, index views, etc. etc.)
and then there is a document type for Recipe.. The source "drawer" will
have the list of cook books
(and In Jaguar will be Rendevouz enabled! :-)
I have sort of designed the Recipe document windows to handle the recipe
aspect.. and that works pretty slick..
However, there isn't much for the main window.. I created a main window
and a drawer (for fun) ..
but when I run the program only a blank Recipe document comes up.. This
is probably not too odd
since I registered only a recipe document type for the target
application (and icons, etc.)
There is no associated window for the MainMenu.nib but a separate Nib
for the main window..
How do I get the main window launched if I run the application and have
it NOT open a blank
recipe document?
What is the appropriate pattern here for a multi-document window.. Is it
multi-document since I want
all cook books to be handled by the main window, but recipes to pop up??
Any advice much appreciated!
Thanks!
SJ McDowall
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