identifying the main app controller

FROM : Daniel Child
DATE : Sat Jan 19 19:15:51 2008

Hi All,

I have read everything I thought might help with no luck.

I have a main controller instantiated via MainMenu.nib, and a window 
controller used to open another window after closing the first. Once 
I have left control of the main app controller and entered the window 
controller's code, how can I reference the original controller? For 
document apps, I found this:

Every nib file has an owner (FilesOwner). A typical 
NSWindowController nib file's owner is a NSWindowController object. 
What you should do is subclass NSWindowController, make the 
Properties.nib's file owner an instance of your subclass by selecting 
the file's owner in InterfaceBuilder, pressing Command-5 and 
selecting your subclass in the list. Make sure every user action in 
Properties.nib objects sends its message to the nib file's owner, 
i.e. to your NSWindowController subclass object. Then edit the action 
methods definitions in Xcode or ProjectBuilder. You can always access 
the appropriate NSDocument subclass from its NSWindowController by 
sending [self document].

I would think there must be an equally easy way to access the main 
app controller.

Thanks.

Daniel