IBAction and IBOutlet in Custom NSWindowController

Question

I have set up a button in my Cocoa application to open a new window. My custom window controller is declared as a property

@property (nonatomic, strong) MyWindowController *myWindowController;

and when my application is launched, the controller is initialized

self.myWindowController = [[MyWindowController alloc] initWithWindowNibName:@"myWindow"];

When the button is clicked, the message

[self.myWindowController showWindow:self];

is sent and the window shows up. However, when I add views to the window, I am not able to hook them up to IBOutlets and IBActions in myWindowController.

Summary: How can I set up myWindowController to handle events in myWindow?

Thanks, Michael Knudsen

Answer 1

Solved it. The object myWindowController must be set as the NIB file's owner. Click it in the Interface Builder and make the change in the Identity Inspector.