Re: Mac compatility problem: recent items menu

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> The recent documents menu is updated by the NSDocumentController method 
> -noteNewRecentDocumentURL:. This method, in turn, is called from 
> NSDocumentController -noteNewRecentDocument:, which is called automatically by 
> NSDocumentController methods when you open a document and by NSDocument methods 
> when you save a document, so it is a bit surprising if this does not work for 
> you. Perhaps you are using some deprecated document and document controller 
> methods (the file based ones instead of the URL based ones) or you have 
> implemented your overrides in such a way that the -noteNewRecentDocument: 
> method gets no longer called on (not so) recent OS X versions.
it is very surprising to me too.

First, I followed Nikolaus' suggestions and deleted the app defaults. 
But in any case, there were no noted recent files inside. It did not 
help. In the case of PRICE, which has some NIBs that were first created 
12+ years ago, I also tried making a new, minimal NIB (XIB actually), 
but still the recent menu is not updated. Neither on Open nor on Save.

In the case of PRICE, I do not even subclass NSDocumentController. Only 
the NSWindowController

http://price.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/price/PRICE-osx/MyDocument.m?revision=1.93&view=markup

You can see that I subclass directly the loadDataRepresentation method, 
so I think most of the housekeeping jobs should be done by the 
controller, of which I use the standard one?

In Graphos (you can find it in user-apps in GAP) I do not subclass 
NSDocumentController neither the NSWindowController, so the application 
is really quite standard.
Here too, I just subclass loadDataRepresentation.

This document subclass is really easy... I wonder if something is 
missing or if subclassing certain methods causes compatibility problems.

http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/trunk/user-apps/Graphos/GRDocument.m?revision=1673&root=gap&view=markup

(although inside there there is some mysterious code in the 
windowControllerDidLoadNib which checks that the controller is the 
same... I don't think this affects us)

I suppose it is easier to understand Graphos first, less code. But I 
remain clueless.

Riccardo