Re: NSWindowController should be a NSResponder

[David Ayers]

Am Donnerstag, den 23.10.2008, 10:27 +0200 schrieb Fred Kiefer:
> Committed. Thank you for this patch!
> 
> Fred
> 
> PS: Only gui applications using a custom subclass of NSWindowController
> need to be recompiled.

(... and categories...)

The change is good and correct for trunk but what's more interesting ist
that you probably have to consider NSCoding implication for non-keyed
un/archivers... this seems non trivial to fix.

Cheers,
David

> Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> > This patch fixes an issue that has bugged me already for quite a
> > while -- NSWindowController should be a subclass of NSResponder and
> > be part of the responder chain. Thus, window controllers automatically
> > receive event and action messages without having to make them delegates
> > of their windows (which does not help for event messages, anyway). This
> > has been the case in OS X for a very long time (AFAIR, one of the
> > developer releases), but never made it into GNUstep (though, curiously,
> > Gorm's class browser considers NSWindowController a subclass of
> > NSResponder already). So here is the patch to make this work.
> > 
> > Note that the patch changes the object layout of NSWindowController
> > and its subclasses, so it will be necessary to recompile all (gui)
> > applications after applying this patch.
> > 
> 
> 
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