Transition between windows in OS X

Question

I am going to make an OS X application with several views and windows.

It has several screens - splash, login/register and the main screen(and so on).

I tried to use NSWindowControllers. However, it's so complex to use and I'm confused.

What is the best experience in the view/window transitions?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2115257/how-to-use-nswindowcontroller and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3683349/nswindowcontroller-clarification-of-understanding will help you out. — parilogic, Oct 15 '12 at 05:11

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '12 at 09:26

The main pattern I use is the follow:

Create a New File User Interface Window and save it as nameYouLike
Create a New File Cocoa Objective-C class of NSWindowController subclass and save is as nameYouLikeDelegate
Go to nameYouLike NSWindow and change it's File's Owner Class to nameYouLikeDelegate
Connect window and other objects you need of xib with an IBOutlet to nameYouLikeDelegate.h

In some init/show method do this:

- (void)showWindow {
    if (!self.window) {
        [NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"nameYouLike" owner:self];
    }

    [self.window makeKeyAndOrderFront:self];
}

Save reference in some way (f.e. in AppDelegate or NSWindowController of another window):
```
nameYouLikeDelegate *fNameYouLikeDelegate;
```

Now when you need to create your window you use:

fNameYouLikeDelegate = [[nameYouLikeDelegate alloc] init];

And to show it:
```
[fNameYouLikeDelegate showWindow];
```

doesn't work for me. But I created class first and then chose "also create xib" — Vyachaslav Gerchicov, Aug 14 '15 at 15:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '12 at 07:58

How would you like to transition? It's probably unnecessary to transition between windows in your case. Better you make a NSViewController and transition between the subviews of the window. You should check out the basics of Cocoa.

You can then use the animator property of the views.

[[self.view animator] setAlphaValue:0.0];

Transition between windows in OS X

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