Re: Wiring up MainMenu.xib
Re: Wiring up MainMenu.xib
- Subject: Re: Wiring up MainMenu.xib
- From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:47:03 -0600
You don't need to wire that up in IB. You just need to implement the action in your window controller.
On Oct 19, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Luther Baker <email@hidden> wrote:
> I created a Document based app and Xcode created two XIB - MainMenu.xib and
> Document.xib. Per the online docs for subclassing NSWindowController, I
> created my own NSWindowController subclass and set that as the "File's
> Owner" for the Document.xib and so far, everything has worked fine.
>
> Now, I added two menu items to MainMenu.xib and I'd like to wire them up to
> corresponding actions in my custom NSWindowController subclass, the "File's
> Owner" in Document.xib.
>
> In MainMenu.xib, I could drag an "Object" into MainMenu.xib and set it to
> be the custom NSWindowController and then drag the menu items to the
> corresponding IBActions and when the app starts those methods do indeed get
> called but understandably, they get invoked on a different instance of
> NSWindowController ... which doesn't have any of my other properties set.
>
> What is the correct way to have menu items in MainMenu.xib invoke actions
> in classes defined elsewhere? Specifically, the app's main
> NSWindowController subclass which I generally wire up in the Document.xib
> file?
>
> Thanks,
> -Luther
>
> "Reasons To ... How to Subclass NSWindowController" ...
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DataManagement/Conceptual/DocBasedAppProgrammingGuideForOSX/KeyObjects/KeyObjects.html
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