Cocoa: How to set window title?

Question

I have a Cocoa application with a secondary window created using a subclass of NSWindowController. I wish to set the window title. The documented method call is setTitle:. I have called this from within the window controller as follows:

- (void)windowDidLoad
{
    // set window title
    [[self window] setTitle:@"test string"]; 
}

This does not affect the title of the window though.

Any suggestions please?

Answer 1

I just use

self.window?.title = "Some String"

where I create the window.

Answer 2

You can connect Your window with IBOutlet and then change Your code:

[[self window] setTitle:@"test string"];

To this:

[yourWindow setTitle:@"test string"];

Full code for example:

.h

IBOutlet NSWindow *yourWindow; //Don't forget to connect window to this

.m

-(void)awakeFromNib {
    [yourWindow setTitle:@"test string"];
}

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And of course You can change title not programatically:

Title can be changed in Attributes inspector:

Answer 3

The NSWindowController class reference indicates that to customize the title, you should override the windowTitleForDocumentDisplayName: method.