Re: Problems with NSApplication Delegates

FROM : Bruce Truax
DATE : Sat Dec 04 22:47:26 2004

On 12/4/04 11:25 AM, "j o a r" <<email_removed>> eloquently wrote:

>
> On 2004-12-04, at 15.19, Bruce Truax wrote:
>

>> When I quit the application using the QUIT menu as defined in the
>> default
>> app these two methods are never called.  I also tried [super
>> setDelegate:self] with the same results.  I am sure I am making an
>> obvious
>> mistake but it is just not obvious enough for me to see.

>
> In general you can't set an object to be it's own delegate, and it
> doesn't quite make sense.
>
> I think that you should separate the two objects. Create a "application
> controller" class, as a subclass of NSObject, that is the application
> delegate. If you need to subclass NSApplication (most of the time you
> don't), do that separately from your application controller.
>
> j o a r
>
>


I changed the delegate to another controller class (which I had wired as the
delgate in IB long ago and then forgot) and now it works.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Bruce