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

On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Howard Moon wrote:

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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!

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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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