Re: Best way to get the window of an NSDocument?

FROM : Marc Respass
DATE : Thu Apr 28 21:15:27 2005

Thanks Daniel. So you think -windowForSheet is the right thing to do? 
It sure seems it and it works.

Marc

On Apr 28, 2005, at 4:28 AM, Daniel Eggert wrote:

> It's a Model-View-Controller thing. NSDocument is your model, the 
> window is your view. The model should not have references to the 
> controller or view, but it is the controller that references the 
> model. At least that is how see things.
>
> Once you start having references both ways, you'll quickly end up 
> having retain cycles and other 'fun'.
>
> /Daniel
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> On 24 Apr 2005, at 19:59, Marc Respass wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> NSDocument doesn't have a -window method to get the window for my 
>> document. I believe it's possible to have multiple windows for a 
>> single document but in this case, I'm putting a toolbar on my 
>> window during -windowControllerDidLoadNib: so the document isn't 
>> even finished opening yet. I'm using this
>>
>> id myWindow = [self windowForSheet];
>>
>> which according to the docs, seems to be a good way to go about 
>> it. I just want to check on that. Is it a hack? Should I go 
>> through the process of asking the window controller for the right 
>> window?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Marc
>>

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