Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2005

Hello there,

I'm (still) new to Cocoa programming and I would really appreciate some
help about the following topics :

- Who is the goddam file's owner  ?

Read from ADC article "WindowControllers and Nib files" :
"When a window controller loads a nib file, it sets itself as the owner
of that nib file."

Read from ADC article "Implementing a document-based application" :
"This project template [the document-based] provides the following things :
- a nib file for the application's document : A subclass of NSDocument
named MyDocument is made File's owner of the nib file. [...]"

I had the beginning of an answer in ADC article "Document Architecture" :
"[...] the NSWindowController usually acts as the File's owner for the
nib" and a little further "In very simple case where there only one
window for a document, you may want your NSDocument class to have
outlets and actions for the nib. In this case, the NSDocument subclass
acts as the file's owner for the nib"

But this raised another questions :
- How do you create document with several Window (like main window and
inspector window) ?

Do you create several windows and associated NSWindowController classes
in the document nib file ? In this case who is the File's owner ? Or...

I'm getting lost...

Thanks for your help

Brieuc