Re: open recent in renaissance?

[Wolfgang Lux]

Tim Schmielau wrote:

> My app is not document based. But that's just what Apple's  
> documentation
> says for [NSDocumentController noteNewRecentDocumentURL:]
>
>   "NSDocument automatically calls this method when appropriate for
> NSDocument-based applications. Applications not based onNSDocument
> must also implement the application:openFile: method in the  
> application
> delegate to handle requests from the Open Recent menu command."

Thank you for making me aware of that piece of documentation. I have  
changed NSDocumentController in svn to give the application delegate  
a chance to open files from the recent documents menu.

> I can't at the moment find the Apple sample code where I derived this
> from. But my app does just these two things:
>
>   [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]
> noteNewRecentDocumentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath: filename]]; to add
> entries to the recent documents menu,
>   and implement - (BOOL)application:(NSApplication *)theApplication
> openFile:(NSString *)filename to open files.

I guess it comes from the TextEdit sample code on 10.4 or earlier,  
which was not document based at that time.

> It works flawlessly on OS X.

And hopefully now does so on GNUstep as well.

Wolfgang