Re: Notification of window visible?
Re: Notification of window visible?
- Subject: Re: Notification of window visible?
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:13:28 -0500
On Jun 7, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:31 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
>
>> Why do you need such a notification? Windows don't "spontaneously" become visible unbeknownst to your code.
>
> I’ve run into this in an app that has a singleton panel, which I want to persistently remember whether it’s open or closed. In other words, I want to update a boolean user-default when the window opens or closes. But the panel is in the main nib, with the “Show Panel" menu command simply wired up to its -makeKeyAndOrderFront: method. So the window was indeed becoming spontaneously visible without my code being called.
>
> I found it was possible to detect closing via a notification, but not opening. I ended up writing a custom -showMyPanel: method, wiring the menu to that, and having that method set the default. Not a big deal, but it would have been cleaner if there’d just been a window-did-become-visible notification to listen to.
Hmm. You can bind the window's 'visible' binding to some property on a controller (or even NSUserDefaultsController). If it's bound to your own controller, then I guess that would give you a sort of notification when the visibility changes.
Still, I prefer the second approach you ended up taking.
Regards,
Ken
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