Re: Renaissance and document based applications bug

[Philippe Roussel]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Not sure whether your approach is the right way to solve the issue.
> To me it rather looks like the way we implement things in gui makes
> it hard for subclasses to do the right thing.
> 
> If I remember correctly that extra flag in NSWidnowController was
> only there to avoid loading the same failing NIB file twice. Not
> sure whether that mechanism works at all after the change Jonathan
> Gillaspie did two years ago. We could remove that flag and just
> check whether _window is set. Or combine both and first check for
> _window being non-null and next for the nib_is_loaded if we ever
> want to make the functional again.

I hadn't considered modifying NSWindowController (and I don't know
why) but I like your suggestion.
This problem with Renaissance probably is a regression in gui anyway
so it makes sense to fix the regression and allow easy subclassing.

I'll give it a try tonight if nobody beats me to it.

Thanks,
Philippe
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