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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: koko <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:28:00 -0700

Uncheck 'Visible At Launch' in the attributes Inspector with the Window selected.

No it will not display until you tell it.

So you might do

NSWindow *w = [NSWindowController window]

This wil cause your willDidLoad method to be called

then you might

[w makeKeyAndOrderFront];

and if you want it to always be on top regardless of active app you can

[w setLevel:NSFloatingWindowLevel+1];


On Feb 29, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Howard Moon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 	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.  Is there any?  Is it documented anywhere?  I've spent an hour searching and can't find *anything* that says what those Inspector fields mean (other than the aforementioned tool-tip).
>
> 	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.
>
> 	Can someone guide me here, or point me to the appropriate documentation?  (My book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Third Edition, is no help here.)
>
> Thanks,
> 	Howard
>
>
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