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Re: Disabling menu items


  • Subject: Re: Disabling menu items
  • From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:52:52 +0100

If you have no idea what the First Responder is, you are clearly out of your depth. Step back and read up on the Responder Chain. It is a very important concept and central to Cocoa.

Mike Abdullah.

On 15 May 2009, at 16:01, McLaughlin, Michael P. wrote:

In a Cocoa Document project (latest Xcode), I want to have only one document
open at a time. I thought that I could do this by subclassing
NSDocumentController but I have been only partially successful. For
instance, just as a test, the subclass code contains


-(BOOL)validateUserInterfaceItem:(id < NSValidatedUserInterfaceItem >)sender
{
SEL a = [sender action];


  if (a == @selector(newDocument:))
     return NO;
  if (a == @selector(openRecentDocument:))
     return NO;

  return [super validateUserInterfaceItem:sender];
}

The disabling of newDocument: works but the second test fails. It appears
that the subclass receives only newDocument: and openDocument: actions, not
openRecentDocument:


Moreover, IB says only that Open Recent goes to First Responder and I have
no idea what that First Responder is (else I might be able to subclass it).


There must be an easy way to do all of this. Could someone point me to a
code example somewhere? Or a good description?


TIA.

--
Mike McLaughlin

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