Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSDocumentController — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

NSDocumentController is one of three classes that make up the document-based application architecture. The other two classes are NSDocument and NSWindowController. This class is responsible for managing an applications documents, in particular providing an implementation for the File → Open and File → New commands. Additionally, NSDocumentController takes responsibility for ensuring that documents are properly saved and closed before an application terminates.

@interface NSDocumentController : NSObject <NSCoding>

// Initializers

- (id)init;

// Accessor Methods

- (void)setShouldCreateUI:(BOOL)flag;

- (BOOL)shouldCreateUI;

// Class Methods

+ (id)sharedDocumentController;

// Instance Methods

- (BOOL)closeAllDocuments;

- (NSArray *)URLsFromRunningOpenPanel;

- (void)addDocument:(NSDocument *)document;

- (IBAction)clearRecentDocuments:(id)sender;

- (void)closeAllDocumentsWithDelegate:(id)delegate didCloseAllSelector:(SEL)didAllCloseSelector contextInfo:(void *)contextInfo;

- (NSString *)currentDirectory;

- (id)currentDocument;

- (NSString *)displayNameForType:(NSString *)documentTypeName;

- (Class)documentClassForType:(NSString *)documentTypeName;

- (id)documentForFileName:(NSString *)fileName;

- (id)documentForWindow:(NSWindow *)window;

- (NSArray *)documents;

- (NSArray *)fileExtensionsFromType ...