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macOS How to buid a multi-window cocoa project

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youngplayer

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I'm a beginner of Cocoa. And I've read 'Learning Cocoa with objective-c', which only introduces single window programming. In practice, I need to implement multi-window project, but I haven't found such introduction in the books on hand.
Pls tell me how to do, or what book I should refer. Thanks!
 
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liptonlover

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I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you mean something like safari where you can open as many windows as you want, you need to create a document based application. If you just want more windows in your application, then just drag more windows out in IB.
 
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youngplayer

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liptonlover said:
I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you mean something like safari where you can open as many windows as you want, you need to create a document based application. If you just want more windows in your application, then just drag more windows out in IB.
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I just want to more windows displayed as they should display, which may NOT display at beginning. For example, develop a main window as a client, which including some operation buttons. And when press one of these buttons, a sub window comes out to deal with input, or something else.
 
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Just add additional windows to the main nib, set Hidden, and an action to the button that calls a mehod in your app controller. In that method you unhide the widow and call makeKeyAndOrderFront: on it (you'll need an outlet connected to the window in IB). If you window is complex you might consider putting it in its own nib.
 
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youngplayer

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HiRez said:
Just add additional windows to the main nib, set Hidden, and an action to the button that calls a mehod in your app controller. In that method you unhide the widow and call makeKeyAndOrderFront: on it (you'll need an outlet connected to the window in IB). If you window is complex you might consider putting it in its own nib.
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Thanks! Could you talk more about multi-nib programming? It's better to show me some book or sample code to view.
 
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youngplayer

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HiRez said:
Just add additional windows to the main nib, set Hidden, and an action to the button that calls a mehod in your app controller. In that method you unhide the widow and call makeKeyAndOrderFront: on it (you'll need an outlet connected to the window in IB). If you window is complex you might consider putting it in its own nib.
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" unhide the widow and call makeKeyAndOrderFront" DOES work. But it has to be added to the main nib. If I want to display several sub-windows, do I have to add several sub-windows to the main nib? If so, I feel not good...

Can I make a sub-window as a Model, and copy and display it as it should occur? How to do so ?
 
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