Re: Toggle drawer from the menu with a multi-document program

FROM : Louis C. Sacha
DATE : Wed Oct 06 22:06:39 2004

Hello...

You could create an action method in your NSDocument subclass that
toggles the drawer's opened/closed state, for example

- (void)toggleDrawerState:(id)sender
{
   /* ... */
}

Then in your MainMenu.nib, you would add a new action method
toggleDrawerState: to the "First Responder" proxy , and then connect
your menu item to "First Responder" and its new "toggleDrawerState:"
action. You can add actions to the "First Responder" proxy the same
way you would add them to a class you are creating in
InterfaceBuilder.

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Hope that helps,

   Louis


>Is it possible to have a command from the menu to toggle the
>currently focused document?  I am created a multi-document
>application which has a drawer.  I have managed to add a button
>which can toggle the drawer.  However, with the two different nibs
>(MyDocument and MainMenu), it seems that the MainMenu cannot
>directly communicate with the NSDrawer in the MyDocument nib.  Is
>there a way to get around this so I can have a command in the menu
>to toggle the drawer?  This is my preferred way of doing things
>since the button in the main window interface is purely temporary.
>
>Chad Armstrong
>