Re: Stupid question: how do you show an NSWindow?

FROM : Nathaniel Gottlieb-Graham
DATE : Mon Mar 10 21:20:59 2008

Yup, The windows were released when closed, and I was using -close 
rather than -orderOut.  Thanks guys!


On Mar 10, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Matt Mashyna wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Nathaniel Gottlieb-Graham wrote:
>

>> This is going to sound really stupid, but how do you show an 
>> NSWindow?  [aWindow close] seems to be the appropriate method to 
>> close it, but idiotically enough, I can't seem to find a way re-
>> show the window once it's no longer on-screen.  [aWindow 
>> makeKeyAndOrderFront:sender] will only bring the window forward if 
>> it's already visible, and doesn't seem to do anything if the window 
>> isn't already there.  I've searched through NSWindow's class 
>> reference, and I may be overlooking something obvious, but I just 
>> can't seem to figure this out.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nathaniel
>>

>
> Well, I can think of something. I do this all the time for things 
> like an info window. I have an app controller with an IBOutlet to 
> the window I want to hide and show and I call [aWindow 
> makeKeyAndOrderFront:self]  to show it and [aWindow close] to hide 
> it. You need to make sure that you have the "Release when Closed" 
> checkbox turned off in IB to make sure it doesn't, uh ...  get 
> released when closed.
>
> If it's not showing when you do this, look in the debugger console 
> to see if you are getting an exception and check in the debugger 
> when you are about to show it and see if it's stale.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Matt
>