How to set save notification when click close in document based application

Question

I am doing a simple document based application. I've implemented readFromData and dataOfType function. Creating a newDocument and saveDocument are working. However, the question is how to set up save notification when user clicks Close. I add some data in my application and when I click close, it just directly close. There is no save notification. I think it was supposed to have it in document based application.

I tried windowWillClose:(NSNotification*)a, having an alertsheet. The alert comes and window closes immediately.

What I am missing?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '12 at 09:56

Use NSDocument -updateChangeCount: method to track changes in your document. Like :

// add some data to theDocument
[theDocument updateChangeCount:NSChangeDone];

But just read the documentation, you may not need to update change count yourself, if you use default document undo manager.

Cheers

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '12 at 07:21

Implement this kind of logic, and you will be done.

- (BOOL)isDocumentEdited{
        if (somethingGotChanged){
            return YES;
        }
        else{
            return NO;
        }
        //or return somethingGotChanged; //*** make somethingGotChanged BOOL
    }

Here, somethingGotChanged is a flag, which you have to set based on you editing on the data.

How to set save notification when click close in document based application

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