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Besi
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Reputation: 22939

Configure the window of an NSWindowController before it appears on screen

I am using an NSWindowController not I want to set some attributes (specifically the styleMask property) on the window, before the actual window is shown. However, the window property on the NSWindowController is only available once the window is already on screen.

I could use initWithWindow: on the NSWindowController but then I am no longer able to use a nib file for the content of the window (because this uses initWithWindowNibName:.

So how can I configure the view before it is shown, something similar to viewWillAppear on NSView?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 889

Answers (1)

user557219
user557219

Reputation:

In Interface Builder, uncheck the ‘Visible At Launch’ attribute. When doing this, the window is not shown when the corresponding nib file is loaded by the window controller, so you can configure your window in -[NSWindowController windowDidLoad] and then manually show it using -[NSWindowController showWindow:].

Note that there’s no -viewWillAppear method in Cocoa.

Upvotes: 3

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