Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSDocument — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This class is one of three that comprise Cocoa’s document-based application architecture; the other two are NSDocumentController and NSWindowController. NSDocument is an abstract class that defines the fundamental interface for objects that represent documents. This interface includes methods for loading and saving a document’s contents, managing a document’s windows, handling print jobs, and managing an undo manager. NSDocument is never used directly; rather, developers subclass NSDocument and implement the key methods to tailor the document to their needs.

@interface NSDocument : NSObject

// Initializers

- (id)init;

- (id)initWithContentsOfFile:(NSString *)fileName ofType:(NSString *)fileType;

- (id)initWithContentsOfURL:(NSURL *)url ofType:(NSString *)fileType;

// Accessor Methods

- (void)setHasUndoManager:(BOOL)flag;

- (BOOL)hasUndoManager;

- (void)setFileType:(NSString *)type;

- (NSString *)fileType;

- (void)setFileName:(NSString *)fileName;

- (NSString *)fileName;

- (void)setUndoManager:(NSUndoManager *)undoManager;

- (NSUndoManager *)undoManager;

- (void)setPrintInfo:(NSPrintInfo *)printInfo;

- (NSPrintInfo *)printInfo;

- (void)setWindow:(NSWindow *)window;

// Class Methods

+ (BOOL)isNativeType:(NSString *)type;

+ (NSArray *)readableTypes;

+ (NSArray *)writableTypes;

// Instance Methods ...