[techtrucker]

Working with a Cocoa Document Based app here....

When I use loadDataRepresentationNSData *)data ofTypeNSString *)aType how can I retrieve the name of the file that was opened? The file may not be opened using the Open panel, it could be opened via the Open Recent menu...

TIA, and Happy New Year!

[techtrucker]

Sorry, forgot to disable smilies..

[Chuckit]

If you need the file's name in order to read from it (I find that kind of odd, but I'll just trust you here), you'd probably be better off overriding readFromURL:ofType: instead. You can then use the URL to get the file's name.

[techtrucker]

Chuck,

Here's the story: I've got an offscreen view for printing purposes. I am looking to parse the file name in order to provide a title for the printout...

[Brass]

-[NSDocument displayName]

Returns the name of the receiver as displayed in the title bars of the document’s windows and in alert dialogs related to the document.

If the document has been saved, the display name is the last component of the directory location of the saved file (for example, “MyDocument” if the path is “/tmp/MyDocument.rtf”). If the document is new, NSDocument makes the display name “Untitled n,” where n is a number in a sequence of new and unsaved documents. The displayable name also takes into account whether the document’s filename extension should be hidden. Subclasses of NSWindowController can override windowTitleForDocumentDisplayName: to modify the display name as it appears in window titles.