Archive for the 'Interface Builder' Category

Burnt by Implicit Overloading (poor naming / thinking on my part)

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

I’m trying to load a NSPanel with a controller that inherits from NSWindowController. So my controller’s init calls: self = [super initWithWindowNibName:@”NibNameHere”]; and then I call showWindow on my now init’d controller object. All pretty straight forward. Problem is that the dang “window” assigned to files owner wasn’t showing up. […]

nextKeyView gotcha

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

If your window doesn’t have an “InitialFirstResponder” set, each elements “nextKeyView” is ignored. I guess that makes sense? Something to remember anyway.

Understand IB’s Exclamation Point *Before* You Ignore It

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

I just wasted ~2 hours debugging a problem that was the result of my “IBOutlet NSTableView *profileTableView” not being wired up in Interface Builder. When IB knows about an outlet or action that isn’t wired up, the icon in the instances tab gets an exclamation point in its lower left hand corner. This is a […]


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