[Khoth]

I'm just starting Cocoa programming, and I have a few problems:
1. How do I make it so that when the user closes the main window,the program quits?

2. How do put information on the about... and help... boxes?

3. I made a program that calculates a load of dot positions and uses NSBezierPath to draw a line. Is there something similar to draw disconnected dots?

Thanks for any help.

[tobli]

Originally posted by Khoth:
<STRONG>I'm just starting Cocoa programming, and I have a few problems:
1. How do I make it so that when the user closes the main window,the program quits?

2. How do put information on the about... and help... boxes?

3. I made a program that calculates a load of dot positions and uses NSBezierPath to draw a line. Is there something similar to draw disconnected dots?

Thanks for any help.</STRONG>

1. In your application delegate, put the following method:
- (BOOL)applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClo sedNSApplication *)theApplication
{
return YES;
}

2. For the about box, just include a Credits.rtf or Credits.html file in your application. You should get one for free from the project templates in ProjectBuilder, at least for NSDocument based apps.

/Tobias

[serversurfer]

1. How do I make it so that when the user closes the main window,the program quits?

Make an object that the window delegates to then add this method to it:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier> -(void)windowWillClose id)sender
{
[NSApp terminate:nil];
}
</font>[/code]

2. How do put information on the about... and help... boxes?

The "About" info is in a file called InfoPList.strings in your project. Help is more complicated. not sure how to do it but my buddy does. I'll ask him if no one else offers help.

3. I made a program that calculates a load of dot positions and uses NSBezierPath to draw a line. Is there something similar to draw disconnected dots?

I like tacos.

[serversurfer]

BTW, the Quit method posted by tobli will quit your app after the _last_ window closes, whereas the method I posted quits when the window you delegated to the controller closes, regardless of what other windows are open at the time. (Unless they have unsaved changes, or something.)

[lindberg]

3) NSBezierPath should work here as well -- use the moveToPoint: method to move the current point around without drawing lines. To draw a point, uh, I guess you could just call lineToPoint: on the same point, and hope the line width is enough to draw the point. That, or draw a (small) circle.

[Khoth]

Thanks, people.

lineToPoint to the same place doesn't seem to work. I'll try circles, but they seem overkill somehow.