Have you ever tried learning to ski? Or skate? Or rollerblade? All these sports have something in common: it’s pretty easy to get started, but you’re gonna get hurt unless you learn how to stop. Cocoa is pretty similar, actually. You can code your guts out, but if you don’t know how to troubleshoot your problems, you’re in for a world of hurt.
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When I began this project, I was in a low point for my day job: the clients were unusually quiet, and I was even starting to get that pain-in-the-gut feeling when things are going bad. Right now, of course, things are right back to normal: crazy clients with crazy websites and crazy deadlines. So I’ve been working my fanny off, and subsequently paying less attention to our dear Napkin.
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Okay, things are moving again. Having got my application to save and open documents, I decided that I would clean that up a bit, by filling in some configuration in XCode. Going to my Target and showing the properties, I was able to change the name of my documents from ???? to .nap, and provide nice document icons.

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These are the moments that keep you going, that sustain you through the impossible times. Just now, I’ve solved the stupid saving problem. And my God, it’s simple simple simple.
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Flush from my unexpected success with the “junk data” coming from my calculator class, I decided to step back and take care of some of the boring bits: document opening and saving, undo, printing, copy and paste, and drag and drop. This is the stuff that people expect to be able to do with any Mac application, so I have to make sure it’s there!

I started with saving. Maybe because it seems so simple in the Hillegass book, I thought this wouldn’t be a problem. Ha ha. I’ve officially hit The Wall.

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