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Re: How to reference a NSDocument from a NSView?
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Re: How to reference a NSDocument from a NSView?


  • Subject: Re: How to reference a NSDocument from a NSView?
  • From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:46:08 -0400


On 19-Aug-08, at 12:52 PM, Jeff Mesnil wrote:

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Jeff Mesnil <email@hidden> wrote:
The application is behaving as expected, the model (the ovals) are
kept in MyDocument and the DrawView just draws them.
But I was wondering if that was the "right" Cocoa way to do so, to use
an IBOutlet to connect a NSView to a NSDocument.
Is there another way to have a reference to the document from one view
of the application?

Answering my own question, my use case is similar to the Sketch example bundled with XCode.

In Sketch, they use KVC to observe an NSArrayController.
I did the same by calling bind:toObject:withKeyPath:options:  in
MyDocument windowControllerDidLoadNib: method and it works.

To sum up, I've seen 3 different ways to write this code:
- use an IBOutlet to reference the NSDocument from a NSView
- use [[[self window] windowController] document] from a NSView
(thanks Chaitanya!)
- forget about the NSDocument and use KVC to directly observe the ovals


Using the KVC seems the most natural way to do that in Cocoa.


I think all three are actually very valid.

although everywhere you've said KVC above needs to e replaced with KVO. :-)



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