[Openmcl-devel] Window ownership, association and other subtleties

[Didier Verna]

       Hi again,

I have a custom window-controller initialized as follows, from a method
in the application delegate:

  (objc:defmethod (#/browser: :void) ((self app-delegate) sender)
    (let ((mwc (or (main-window-controller self)
            (setf (main-window-controller self)
                  (make-instance main-window-controller
                                :with-window-nib-name "MainWindow")))))

and later, (#/showWindow mwc).


For some reason, anyplace I try (#/window mwc), I get a null foreign
pointer. On the other hand, my window controller does receive
notifications such as the following prints a non null pointer:

(objc:defmethod (#/windowShouldClose: :<BOOL>)
    ((self main-window-controller) window)
  (princ window)(terpri))



There seem to be some subtleties in the Apple's doc about window
controllers. For instance, #/window is documented as returning the
window "owned" by the receiver whereas #/showWindow is said to display
the window "associated" with the receiver. This makes me worried... :-)

So how do I make #/window actually return something ?

Thanks !


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