Re: NSApplication openFiles

[Fred Kiefer]

On 02.08.2012 17:27, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > I think we are missing the delegate method "application:openFiles:" of
> > NSApplication, available since 10.3
> >
> > What I want is be able to handle an application launched with two files:
> >
> > myApp.app file1 file2
> >
> > How was this handled before in 10.2 and openstep? I'm curious.
> >
> > I think I can add the method in the NSApplication quite easily by
> > copying the openFile: and wrapping the arguments in an Array. What do
> > you think?
> Actually I have noticed that we don't have these methods in
> NSApplication, but in NSDocumentController.
>
> I want to implement this delegate method in my own application, but I
> don't get the notification at all and I am wondering where it should be
> launched.

GNUstep has these methods mainly on the class GSServicesManager. This is 
somethign that I always wondered about. It would feel more natural to me 
to have these methods on NSApplication, and have GSServicesManager call 
that implementation. We could then dispatch the calls in NSApplication 
either to the delegate or to the corresponding methods on 
NSDocumentController, if the delegate wont handle them. Adding 
"application:openFiles:"would be very simple then.

For your specific requirement even with the current code it would be 
simple to add that method and all you would have to do then is implement 
it on the application delegate.