I have panel represent my defaults via binding! All works fine but for the browse button I have:

I have a textfield holding a path and want to offer a browse button. The button is not realizable without ‘glue code’, is it? What’s the best way to do it?

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Don’t know if this is the best way, but here’s what I did. Just put the following code in a custom class, and add an instance of the class to IB. Then bind your text field’s content value to a key (I used “template”) in user defaults. -JediKnil

/** Make this your Browse button’s action */

• (IBAction)chooseTemplate:(id)sender { NSOpenPanel *openPanel = [NSOpenPanel openPanel];

  [openPanel setCanChooseDirectories:NO]; [openPanel setCanChooseFiles:YES]; [openPanel setResolvesAliases:YES]; [openPanel setAllowsMultipleSelection:NO]; [openPanel beginSheetForDirectory:nil file:nil types:nil modalForWindow:window modalDelegate:self didEndSelector:@selector(openPanelDidEnd:returnCode:contextInfo:) contextInfo:@”template”]; // @”template” is the name of the key you want to store in user defaults (where the object is the filename itself) }

/** Called by NSOpenPanel */

• (void)openPanelDidEnd:(NSOpenPanel *)sheet returnCode:(int)returnCode contextInfo:(void *)contextInfo { if (returnCode == NSOKButton) [defaults setObject:[sheet filename] forKey:contextInfo]; // contextInfo contains the key – this way you can have all your open panels store values in user defaults }

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Cool! Thought I could avoid glue code altogether now but that way is quite elegant :)