Re: File's Owner

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Sat May 24 13:02:15 2008

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Paul Sargent <<email_removed>> wrote:

>
> On 24 May 2008, at 05:39, Andreas Mayer wrote:
>

>>
>> I thought, maybe a picture would help:
>>
>> http://www.harmless.de/images/other/files_owner.png
>>

>
> Exactly the picture I was about to draw.
>
> Johnny Lundy wrote:
>

>> Saying it connects the nib to an object outside the nib sounds good, but
>> what object is that?
>>

>
> The object that loaded the NIB. What object is that? Whichever is passed
> when the NIB is loaded with [NSBundle loadNibNamed:owner:]
>
> e.g. NSApplication probably has code that looks like
>
> [NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"MainMenu" owner:self]
>
> You might have a piece of code that reads
>
> [NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"InspectorWindows" owner:inspectorController]



If your inspectorController is your own custom subclass of
NSWindowController, it will make itself the nib's owner if you create it
like this:

MyInspectorController* ic = [[MyInspectorController alloc] initWithNibName:@
"inspectorWindows"];

sherm--

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