Re: File's Owner

FROM : Shawn Erickson
DATE : Fri May 23 23:11:31 2008

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Shawn Erickson <<email_removed>> wrote:

> So the real question you likely have is who is loading my nib? We can
> only help answer that if you outline more about the nib and the code
> involved. However as a guess I assume you are talking about
> MainMenu.nib (default name for the "NSMainNibFile" entry that you
> specify in your Info.plist). This nib is loaded by the NSApplication
> instance the represents your Cocoa application (created when you call
> NSApplicationMain() in you main entry point). NSApplication is the
> owner of that nib, hence the file's owner proxy object represents it.


Oops I intended to reference the following in my first post...

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/AddingBehaviortoaCocoaProgram/chapter_4_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002974-CH5-DontLinkElementID_1>

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CoreAppArchitecture/chapter_7_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002974-CH8-SW45>

-Shawn