[Openmcl-devel] suppressing "... save the changes ...?"

[Arthur Cater]

Thank you Gary.
This worked: to make a document subclass whose #/isDocumentEdited returns #$NO.

Since #/setDocumentEdited ... #$NO   had not been working, I guess you are right
that something somewhere was contradicting it.

Arthur


On 24 Feb 2012, at 06:54, Gary Byers wrote:

> Cocoa will try to save the document associated with a window when the window
> is about to close if:
> 
> a) there is a document associated with a window.  The right way to determine
>   this is to obtain the window's window controller and ask it for the associated
>   document,, as in:
> 
>   (let* ((document (#/document (#/windowController theWindow))))
>     ...)
> 
>    though it happens to work to call an apparently undocumented #/document
>    method on an NSWindow object (and we've had code in the IDE that's done that.)
> 
> b) that document's #/isDocumentEdited method returns true.
> 
> The IDE uses a different class of NSDocument for listener windows than
> it does for editor windows, and that document class's
> #/isDocumentEdited method returns false.  (The #/setDocumentEdited:
> methods on the related window and window-controller classes are no-ops,
> but that may be overkill.)  A listener window's close box never turns dark
> red and closing one doesn't result in the dialog that you're trying to avoid.
> 
> If you don't want to create subclasses, you might consider redefining
> the #/setDocumentEdited: method on the HEMLOCK-FRAME class in
> ccl:cocoa-ide;cocoa-editor.lisp.  The current implementation tries to
> determine whether or not the document's changed status is changing and
> arranges to update the modeline before calling the next method if so, and
> if you can determine that the window/buffer/whatever belongs to one of
> your scratch windows you might want to make that method do nothing.
> 
> (It might also be useful to have that method print something whenever it's
> called; that output would go to the AltConsole window and there may be a lot
> of it.  Calling (#/setDocumentEdited: theWindow #$NO) should convince Cocoa
> that nothing needs to be saved, but something else may be saying the exact
> opposite.)
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Arthur Cater wrote:
> 
>> I've a problem with some code I've recently contributed. It creates Hemlock windows
>> and streams for writing to them (and provides a format directive /clickable/ which is
>> not the issue here).
>> 
>> The windows have an annoying feature, which is that when I close one manually
>> I get asked "Do you want to save the changes ...". For some windows at least,
>> I'd like to regard them as scratch windows that should just go away when they are
>> told to. I tried (in a private version, not in the version you might find in contribs)
>> a number of things in a specialised #/windowShouldClose method,
>> but have learned that the question is asked before that method is invoked.
>> 
>> I now (in private) arrange - and this still does not work! - that whenever I write to the stream
>> I do so inside GUI::EXECUTE-IN-GUI and also there do
>>   (#/updateChangeCount:  <theDocument>  #$NSChangeCleared)
>>   (hi::%set-buffer-modified   <theBuffer>  nil)
>>   (#/setDocumentEdited:   <theWindow>   #$NO)
>> 
>> 
>> Can anyone please suggest a workable way to get a Hemlock window to just die quietly?
>> 
>> Arthur
>> 
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