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

FROM : Marc Respass
DATE : Sat Apr 30 16:40:01 2005

On Apr 29, 2005, at 8:08 PM, mmalcolm crawford wrote:

>
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 1:28 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.
>>
>>

> This doesn't really address the question.  Moreover, NSDocument is 
> more a controller than a model (its actual role tends to be blurred 
> -- in the context of the complete document architecture, though, 
> it's typically a model-controller and NSWindowController a view 
> controller).
>
>

>>> 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];
>>>
>>>

> If you're doing this in windowControllerDidLoadNib, you could ask 
> the window controller for its window...
>
> In general, if you're using an "out of the box" document-based 
> application, then you can get the document's window from:
>
>    [[[self windowControllers] objectAtIndex:0] window];
>


Thanks for the response. My real question is really if using 
windowForSheet is wrong or a hack and I think it's at least not best. 
According to the docs, -windowForSheet "returns the window of the 
first window controller" or [NSApp mainWindow] but since I'm in 
windowControllerDidLoadNib, I figured it was safe. I'll change it to 
ask the first window controller for its window. That does seem 
better. Thanks again for the help.

Marc