Re: [newbie] Handling a preferences window
Re: [newbie] Handling a preferences window
- Subject: Re: [newbie] Handling a preferences window
- From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:01:18 +0100
On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 08:50 pm, Yann Bizeul wrote:
Hi there.
I'm new to the list, and I don't know if there is another list for
really basic questions.
<insert sound of semi-masticated bagel chips bouncing off subscribers'
screens>
Nope, they don't get any more basic than this one, we're told.
My problem is very simple, I'm designing a new application, so I draw
everything in IB, and cretated my Objects and their controllers.
Now I just want to link the Preferences menu to my preference windows,
I found a tutorial at apple's web site but it shows how to handle
windows in another nib file, mine is in the MainMenu.nib.
In fact, I made an action in my "TSMPrefs" object called
"showPreferences" and I linked it with the "Preferences" menu.
Each to their own, but it's not generally good practice to handle things
like prefs in the main nib. Items which aren't central tend to be put in
separate nibs. It doesn't matter much if your application is very small,
but if it grows complex, you gain efficiency by farming things out.
Now I don't know what to write in my showPreferences code, how to
access this NSWindow object to ask him to display ?
Assuming TSMPrefs is a subclass of NSWindowController (which it should
be), just connect "Preferences..." to the object's built-in -showWindow:
action method.
-Jeremy
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