Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSWindowController — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This is one of the three classes that makes up Cocoa’s document-based application architecture; the other two classes are NSDocument and NSDocumentController. Instances of NSWindowController are responsible for managing a single window for a document. NSWindowController has a close relationship with windows contained in nib files, which is evident in the initializer initWithWindowNibName:. This initializer will load the window in the nib and take ownership over it. See Chapter 3 for more information on NSWindowController and its role in document-based applications.

@interface NSWindowController : NSResponder <NSCoding>

// Initializers

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

- (id)initWithWindowNibName:(NSString *)windowNibName;

- (id)initWithWindowNibName:(NSString *)windowNibName owner:(id)owner;

- (id)initWithWindowNibPath:(NSString *)windowNibPath owner:(id)owner;

// Accessor Methods

- (void)setWindowFrameAutosaveName:(NSString *)name;

- (NSString *)windowFrameAutosaveName;

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

- (NSWindow *)window;

- (void)setDocumentEdited:(BOOL)dirtyFlag;

- (void)setShouldCloseDocument:(BOOL)flag;

- (BOOL)shouldCloseDocument;

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

- (id)document;

- (void)setShouldCascadeWindows:(BOOL)flag;

- (BOOL)shouldCascadeWindows;

// Instance ...