Saves the interface-related state of the document.
SDK
- macOS 10.7+
Framework
- App
Kit
Declaration
func encodeRestorableState(with coder: NSCoder)
Parameters
coderThe coder object in which to save the document’s interface-related state.
Discussion
This method is part of the window restoration system and is called at appropriate times to save your document’s window-related state information to the specified archive. The default implementation of this method records some basic information about the document. If you override this method, you must call super at some point in your implementation.
Subclasses can override this method and use it to restore any information that would be needed to restore the document’s window to its current state. For example, you could use this method to record references to the data currently managed by the document and displayed by the window. (Do not store the actual data itself. Store only references to the data so that you can load it later from disk.) You must store enough data to reconfigure the document and its window to their current state during a subsequent launch of the app.
For information about using a coder object to write data to an archive, see Archives and Serializations Programming Guide.