[MacRuby-devel] Close Current window and Pass Data

[Charles Steinman]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Buddy Lindsey, Jr. <percent20 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have had some good success in getting large chunks of my app done, but
> there are a few things that I can't seem to figure out, or at least get to
> working.
> I was able to figure out how to open up a new window that was based on a xib
> file, but what I really want to do is open the new window and close the
> current one which opened the new one.
> Also in the process of opening the new window I want to pass some data, at
> this point a single string. What is the best way to go about this? My lack
> of experience with cocoa, and by extension objective-c, is really killing me
> on figuring this out. Unfortuneatly there isn't just a simple close() method
> to call.

There actually is a simple close method, both on NSWindow[1] and
NSWindowController[2]. Unless I'm misunderstanding, you should be able
to proceed pretty much as you described.

— Chuck

[1]: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSWindow_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSWindow/close
[2]: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSWindowController_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSWindowController/close