Question

I have encrypted documents. After unarchiving each document, I need to prompt the user to enter the document password from a logon sheet. I have means to validate password entry against file contents (this part is done). If the password is incorrect the document shall be closed. If the password is correct the document window shall be presented with document contents.

When I attempt to load the logon sheet (via its controller) in the document’s windowControllerDidLoadNib method I have unrecognized selector error as shown below:

- (void)windowControllerDidLoadNib:(NSWindowController *)aController
{
    [super windowControllerDidLoadNib:aController];

    if (!newPasswordController){
        newPasswordController = [[NewPasswordController alloc] init];
        newPasswordSheet = [newPasswordController window];
    }
    [NSApp beginSheet:newPasswordSheet modalForWindow:[self window]
        modalDelegate:self
       didEndSelector:@selector(didNewPasswordEnd:returnCode:contextInfo:) 
          contextInfo:nil];

}

[_NSControllerObjectProxy copyWithZone:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 

The method [NewPasswordController init] is implemented as follows:

-(id)init
{
    self = [super initWithWindowNibName:@"NewPassword"];
    if (self) {
    }
    return self;
}

where the logon sheet nib file is called NewPassword.

I wonder what went wrong. What is the best way to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Aside from unrecognized selector issue (which I left with Apple) I managed to address the original issue Prompting the user to logon for encrypted documents and here is the solution.

Note every document is password protected and they could potentially respond to different passwords (so the issue is not ‘password protected application’ but ‘password protected documents’).

Simply inject the following code when we are about to read document contents to pop up an application modal window to verify the document password:

- (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData *)data 
        ofType:(NSString *)typeName 
        error:(NSError **)outError 
{
   PasswordController *passwordController = [[PasswordController alloc] init];
   NSWindow *passwordSheet = [passwordController window];

   NSApplication* app = [NSApplication sharedApplication];
   NSInteger iret = [app runModalForWindow:passwordSheet];
   NSLog(@"password dialog returned = %ld", iret);
   if (iret != 0)
   {
       [app stop:self];
       return NO;
   }
   [passwordController release];
   ...

You may also pop up another kind of window when the document is saved the first time in dataOfType, forcing the user to set the document’s password.

This issue is answered now.