[Detrius]

I know there's a way to do this--I've seen it in the documentation. However, with all the stuff I've tried, the windows are still being closed.

Expected functionality:

user clicks the close window. Later, they do something else that will bring that exact same window back. I tell the NSWindowController to show the window. However, the NSWindowController doesn't exist anymore and has been removed from the NSDocument's list of NSWindowControllers. I've tried marking the windows to not be released when closed, but they are dissappearing anyway. (however, if the window is minimized, it is brought to the front.)

Any ideas?

[Chuckit]

You could implement the -windowShouldClose: delegate method and just hide the window yourself with that. That seems like the simplest solution.

[Detrius]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
You could implement the -windowShouldClose: delegate method and just hide the window yourself with that. That seems like the simplest solution.

That did work pretty well. One important detail though:

Code:
- (BOOL)windowShouldClose:(id)sender
{
    [[self window] orderOut: sender];
    return NO; // gotta say NO
}