[Openmcl-devel] What goes on under the hood during revert

[Ron Garret]

On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Gary Byers wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Ron Garret wrote:
> 
>> Trying to trace through the process of what happens when you revert a document...
>> 
>> The REVERT menu item invokes revertDocumentToSaved: (as can be
>> determined with this handy-dandy little snippet): >
> 
>> ? (%get-cstring (#_sel_getName (menu-item-action-selector "File"
>> "Revert"))) "revertDocumentToSaved:"
>> 
>> As far as I can tell, this method is not overridden anywhere in the
>> GUI sources, so this just does the standard Cocoa thing, namely,
>> displays the "Are you sure?" dialog, and then invokes....
>> 
>> ... and that's where I get very puzzled, because the latest docs say
>> it invokes revertToContentsOfURL:ofType:error:, which is also, as
>> far as I can tell, not overridden anywhere.  What *is* overridden is
>> revertToSavedFromFile:ofType: but that method is deprecated in
>> Leopard, and as far as I can tell (by adding a print statement) this
>> method is in fact not invoked when a file is reverted.
> 
> It is in fact invoked.  (I added a  (print "Reverting!") call in the method
> body and when I reverted a document in the standalone IDE, that output went
> to the AltConsole window.  I don't know why something similar didn't happen
> in your case.)
> 

It's because I'm an idiot.  I didn't actually add a print statement, I uncommented the call to NSLog and forgot that those messages end up in the system console, not the AltConsole.

Thanks.

rg