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Re: How do IB inspector fields relate to the actual objects?
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Re: How do IB inspector fields relate to the actual objects?


  • Subject: Re: How do IB inspector fields relate to the actual objects?
  • From: Howard Moon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:27:23 -0800

Thanks, Ken!

On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:

> On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Howard Moon wrote:
>
>> 	I've added a Panel to a nib for an audio plug-in I'm working on, and am having trouble determining how the IB Inspector settings relate to the actual objects, such as an NSPanel.  In the Inspector, there are several Style Mask checkboxes:
>>
>> 	Utility
>> 	HUD
>> 	Non Activating
>> 	Document Modal.
>>
>> 	What do those mean?  The tool tip for those says they relate to the member styleMask.  Yet when I look up the NSWindow member styleMask, it leads me to a link to the page "Window Style Masks", which lists the following values:
>>
>> 	NSBorderlessWindowMask
>> 	NSTitledWindowMask
>> 	NSClosableWindowMask
>> 	NSMiniaturizableWindowMask
>> 	NSResizeableWindowMask
>> 	NSTexturedBackgroundWindowMask
>>
>> 	I don't see what the relation between these is.
>
> Check the NSPanel class reference for additional style masks that only apply to panels.

I swear I looked at every single thing in the NSPanel reference, but I never saw that! D'oh!

>
>
>> 	I'm trying to show a panel that I've loaded previously from my nib. I don't want the panel to show until I want it, and I need to show it via code (in an NSWindowController-derived class I created).  But it either shows when it loads, or it doesn't show at all (when calling showWindow:nil), depending on whether I've checked the "Visible at Launch" checkbox in the IB Inspector.  I was hoping one of those "style mask" properties might be the culprit, but I don't know what they do.
>
> My guess is that you forgot to set the window property of the window controller.  That's why -showWindow: isn't doing anything.  Check what the -window getter returns.
>

Yeah... that was it.  I hadn't set the window property in IB.

> If the window is loaded from a standalone NIB, the window controller should typically be loading the NIB; it should specify itself as the owner of the NIB; in the NIB, the class of File's Owner should be set to your window controller class; and you should connect the "window" outlet of File's Owner to the window.
>

Yep, that's what I'm doing now, and it's working.

Thanks!
	-Howard

> Regards,
> Ken
>


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