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Article:		Adding Spit and Polish to Your Cocoa App
Subject:		Didn't Compile
Date:		2002-06-14 16:47:13
From:		johnts
After the first changes, when the article said to compile and try it, I got syntax errors, even after copying the code from the page. I had to change it to: - (BOOL)application:(NSApplication *)theApplication openFile:(NSString *)filename { NSDocumentController *dc; id doc; dc = [NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]; doc = [dc openDocumentWithContentsOfFile:filename display:YES]; return ( doc != nil); } (it complained about the declaration of doc as it was.)

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• Didn't Compile
  2002-06-17 19:19:32  Michael Beam | [View]
  
  
  Whoops! My mistake. You are absolutely correct. I absent mindedly changed it so that:
  
  NSDocumentController *dc = [NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController];
  
  became:
  
  NSDocumentController *dc;
  dc = [NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController];
  
  b/c the original was too wide. I'll get that fixed. Thanks for spotting it!
  
  Mike
  
• order of statements in method
  2002-06-19 22:13:44  psheldon [View]
  
  
  I think what you both understand I shall try to put in words. Declaration/assignment can't follow an assignment. The revision Mike made to fit in the html column didn't work for us in the code because it broke that syntax rule.
  Actually, I think I need mistakes like this to find out I have it in me to hypothesize what is going wrong from the error messages. I have to get confidence I can build code when I don't have a column to follow and I'm more in the dark.