> On Feb 16, 2015, at 6:17 AM, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote:
>
> My initial thought were to have a WindowController:
> LTWMainWindowController that looks after a number of Windows.
Usually you have a separate NSWindowController subclass for each distinct type
of window. If the windows share some functionality, put it in a base class and
subclass it. Otherwise if you try to do everything with one controller class,
you end up with a lot of “switch(_windowType) {…}” stuff, which is a code smell
meaning “subclass me!”
As others have pointed out, you almost never subclass NSWindow. The only reason
to do that is if you want to do something special to the appearance or behavior
of the window frame itself. For example, Chrome has a custom NSWindow class to
handle drawing the tabs in the window frame.
One thing no one’s mentioned yet is NSDocument. If your app supports the
typical behavior of opening a file into a window, you probably want to use
NSDocument, which provides a framework for opening/saving documents, tracking
the ‘dirty’ state, working with iCloud storage, etc.
—Jens
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