Re: Application Menu - Preferences
Re: Application Menu - Preferences
- Subject: Re: Application Menu - Preferences
- From: David Blanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:38:09 -0700
First, thanks to all for a great discussion / learning experience !
It seems cleaner to me to put the preferences window in a separate
NIB and have the app delegate create the window controller that
loads the separate NIB.
Is the approach I have taken ... works great !
On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:58, David Blanton wrote:
What I was really getting at is how to set the target / action for
when the item is selected. Here is what I did, so if this is way
off base please let me know.
I sub-classed NSMenuItem and set the Preferences menu item to this
class.
In the awakeFromNib I set the target and action.
Am I doing too much? Is there a 'less code' approach?
Maybe I'm missing a detail of your requirements, but this seems like
the hard way.
Simply set the Preferences menu item target to First Responder (i.e.
nil) and its action to a method name of your choosing. Implement
that method in your application delegate. The action travels up the
responder chain to the application and then finally to the
application delegate, where your method will be found.
Your application delegate can then do whatever is necessary to
display the preferences (such as creating a window controller the
first time, and telling it to display the window).
Note: Paul suggested a slightly different way, connecting the action
to something in the NIB file. That works fine too, but the drawback
with such an approach is that you have to load up your main menu NIB
file with additional windows and views. It seems cleaner to me to
put the preferences window in a separate NIB and have the app
delegate create the window controller that loads the separate NIB.
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden