On 3 Jan 2012, at 15:25, Martin Hewitson wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm investigating getting the new 10.7 Versions stuff working on my
> NSPersistentDocument app. In doing that, I've seen a couple of strange things
> which I wanted to check on.
>
> Firstly, all I've done to make it work is to return YES from
> +autosavesInPlace.
>
> Now, what I notice is the following sequence of events:
>
>
> 1) App starts:
> windowControllerDidLoadNib <NSWindow: 0x10055d970>
> 2) Enter Versions browser
> NSDocumentRevisionsDebugMode=YES
> <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: CGSDisplayID: App trying to enumerate [0 to
> CGSGetNumberOfDisplays()] instead of using CGSGetDisplayList().
> Compensating...
> <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to
> catch errors as they are logged.
> windowControllerDidLoadNib <NSWindow: 0x1091939c0>
> Entered Versions: NSConcreteNotification 0x108658620 {name =
> NSWindowDidEnterVersionBrowserNotification; object = <NSWindow: 0x10055d970>}
> 3) Exit Versions (by clicking Done button in Versions browser)
> Window will close <NSWindow: 0x1091939c0> / <NSWindow: 0x1091939c0>
> Open windows 1 (logged in windowWillClose:)
> Exited Versions: NSConcreteNotification 0x1091a22c0 {name =
> NSWindowDidExitVersionBrowserNotification; object = <NSWindow: 0x10055d970>}
> 4) Exit App
> Window will close <NSWindow: 0x10055d970> / <NSWindow: 0x10055d970>
> Open windows 1 (logged in windowWillClose:)
>
> Some questions:
>
> a) Why is it that I don't have 2 open windows in step 3)?
> b) What is the first window doing while the Versions browser is open? It
> seems the same document is opened again, judging by the NSWindow objects.
> c) What are the Errors reported just after entering Versions?
The CG errors happen in all apps; seems to be a side-effect of however Apple
have implemented Versions.
>
> Perhaps I'm not understanding how this stuff works yet, so any enlightenment
> would be gratefully received.
>
> As a side question, where are the different versions of the document kept?
> I've read that they are kept in the document, but inspection of the
> (XML-based) Core Data document shows that's not the case. The app is actually
> a manager of other (text) files on disk, and I'm amazed to see that the
> versions actually reflect the state of the managed text files, even though
> the save core data document does not store the file contents. The file
> contents are stored temporarily in a core data entity as a transient
> property. Can I then conclude that these transient properties are stored in
> the different versions? I've tried reading through the documentation on this,
> and I've watched the WWDC11 session on this, but perhaps I need to do that
> again.
It's entirely private to the OS where and how it chooses to store the
historical versions of your documents.
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