Re: Creating a "Welcome Window"
Re: Creating a "Welcome Window"
- Subject: Re: Creating a "Welcome Window"
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:44:24 +0000
Thanks Volker. I guess I could just place the window inside my
MainMenu.nib, but I'm not entirely sure that's what I want. I
probably ought to try and explain a little further:
My app is designed so that generally it is launched by an Applescript
asking it to perform a task, rather than the user actually running
the app. Because of this, it will be a bit of a rarity that the user
actually launches the app. As I see it, this would mean that the
"Welcome window" would then be loaded every time the program is,
regardless of whether it was actually required to appear.
However, I may be totally wrong with my reasoning above, so if you
have any further thoughts please let me know.
Mike.
On 13 Jan 2006, at 18:21, Volker Runkel wrote:
Hi Mike,
just use the MainMenu.nib, which you bind to a subclass of
NSDocumentController, to do that.
Volker
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Am 13.01.2006 um 19:16 schrieb Mike Abdullah:
I have written a relatively simple Cocoa Doc-based app. However,
it is slightly unusual in that it does not open its a blank
document when the app is run. Instead you must choose File-New to
do this.
But now, I would like to add what I would describe as a Welcome
Window. It would operate in a fairly similar manner to some of
the iLife apps, e.g. Garageband when you start the app up for the
first time. A simple window should appear that gives you the
option to create a new document, quit the app or open the
preferences.
At present moment I have used NSApp's
applicationShouldOpenUntitledFile: delegate method as a starting
point. This gets called whenever the user runs the app, or clicks
on the apps icon when there are no documents open. However, I
would like to know what people what suggest further to this.
Should I stick with lauching the window from this delegate method,
or use something else? And to create and control the window,
would I be best off using a custom NSWindowController or what?
Thanks,
Mike A.
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