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Scott Hillson
Scott Hillson

Reputation: 853

Could not connect the action : to target of class NSApplication

I come from a Cocoa touch background and there's one point I'm stuck on, I'm trying to create a ViewController from scratch and connect objects in my xib to actions in my new ViewController. I changed the file's owner to my ViewController and added outlets, and the compiler seems to be happy with what I've done.

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But when I run my application, the connections seem to fail with: 'Could not connect the action start: to target of class NSApplication,' but where is this NSApplication reference hiding? To the best of my knowledge my ViewController has a class of NSViewController.

ViewController : NSViewController

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2064

Answers (1)

Caleb
Caleb

Reputation: 124997

I changed the file's owner to my ViewController and added outlets, and the compiler seems to be happy with what I've done.

Sure, the compiler won't care -- this is a run-time error. It sounds like you're working in your MainMenu.xib file. That file is loaded by the application object. Even though you changed the type of File's Owner in the .xib, the object that's loading the .xib is still the application.

You'll probably want to create a separate .xib file for your view controller to load. You change the type of File's Owner in that file to you view controller class! hook things up to File's Owner, and it should work fine since your view controller really will be the object that's loading the file.

Upvotes: 1

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