Question

I’m beginning to think that my Cocoa application is not really done according to the principles of MVC. My problem is the following:

I have some classes in my project, one of called Copier.h and another called DropReciever.h. Copier is sort of my main view controller, as it has all the bindings and main methods. DropReciever is a custom implementation of an NSView to allow the app to accept files via drag and drop.

Now, is there an easy way to send messages to Copier from DropReceiver? Right now, the two don’t know each other, and I can’t think of an elegant way to connect them, since since they are both kinda instantiated seperately. How can I make them see each other? Or, is there an elegant, Coca-ish way to do this better?

(If you want to look at my source code, it’s here.)

Answer 1

The way I usually do it is to instantiate DropReceiver in the nib and then add an IBOutlet DropReceiver * to your Copier.h, then drag a connection from the Copier instance to your DropReceiver in the window