The presentation style affects “Show” segues. Possibly it affects other segues too, but I only tested a Show segue. I tested on OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite) with Xcode 7.1.1. If a window controller’s presentation style is “Multiple” (the default), then a Show segue to the window controller always loads a new instance of the window … Read more
With iPhone SDK and Leopard SDK, they introduced view controllers, or NSViewController and UIViewController. As their names suggest what they do is to manage views The view controllers are for managing views. Current trend in UI design is Single Window, Multiple View. What it means is that there is one Window and inside of it, … Read more
Instead of overriding any of the init methods you can simply override the windowNibName property and return a hardcoded string. This allows you to call the basic vanilla init method to create the window controller. class WindowController: NSWindowController { override var windowNibName: String! { return “NameOfNib” } } let windowController = WindowController() I prefer this … Read more
What are window controllers actually for? Window controllers are tools to load a window from a NIB file and for managing the memory of the resources allocated in the NIB. Before there where NSWindowControllers one basically had to write the same code for every window or invent an own window controller class. Of course they … Read more