Question

I have read all the docs I can get my hands on and google’d everything I can, however, I am misunderstanding a fundamental aspect of either object-oriented programming, Cocoa, or both. I have a window that is declared in MyDelegate.h:

@property (assign) IBOutlet NSWindow *dataWindow; 

And is synthesized in MyDelegate.m:

@synthesize dataWindow = _dataWindow;

How do I access this window from other classes? For example, I want to use a separate class for a drawer the will have _datawindow as its parent.

Answer 1

You can access it through you MyDelegate class.

MyDelegate *myDelegate = ...;
//MyDelegate *delegate = (MyDelegate*)[[NSApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
NSWindow *window = myDelegate.dataWindow;

Don’t forget to import MyDelegate header to your class