NSReponder chain and controllers

FROM : Robert Douglas
DATE : Thu Jun 19 20:20:20 2008

My code is getting ugly so I suspect I'm doing something wrong.  I'm 
trying to hook up menu items in my main menu to actions that I've 
defined in my controllers.  I have a Core Data doc with a multiple 
master-detail view hierarchy, and for testing purposes have buttons 
connected to  a wide variety of methods.  The NSArrayController 
subclasses are not in the responder chain so I'm connecting the menu 
items to the first responder, catching the action messages in my 
document and then dispatch them to the correct controller.  That 
translates into a lot of simple dispatch code.  I could move all the 
intelligence to the document level but that strikes me as  equally 
ugly.  Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Rob