从菜单项（OS X）重新加载WebView

Question

I want to reload a WebView whenever a certain menu item is clicked. Here's my code that's not working. (Assume normal declarations in .h files.)

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// AppDelegate.m

#import "AppDelegate.h"
// #import "ViewController.h" (in AppDelegate.h)

@interface AppDelegate ()
@end

@implementation AppDelegate

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification {
  // Insert code here to initialize your application
}
- (void)applicationWillTerminate:(NSNotification *)aNotification {
  // Insert code here to tear down your application
}

// Menu Item triggers this:
- (IBAction)reloadWebView:(id)sender {
  NSLog(@"AppDelegate reloadWebView");
  ViewController * vc = [[ViewController alloc] init];
  [vc reloadWebView:sender]; // tried this,
  [vc.webview reload:sender]; // and this,
  [[vc.webview mainFrame] reload]; // and this,
  [[vc.webview mainFrame] loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://example.com/"]]]; // and this.
}

@end

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// ViewController.m

#import "ViewController.h"

// @property (assign) IBOutlet WebView *webview; (in ViewController.h)

@implementation ViewController

@synthesize webview;

- (void)viewDidLoad {
  [super viewDidLoad];
  [[webview mainFrame] loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://example.com/"]]]; // this works
}

- (void)setRepresentedObject:(id)representedObject {
  [super setRepresentedObject:representedObject];
  // Update the view, if already loaded.
}

// Called in AppDelegate:
- (void)reloadWebView:(id)sender {
  NSLog(@"ViewController reloadWebView");
  // The problem here seems to be: webview == nil
  [webview reload:sender]; // also tried this,
  [[webview mainFrame] reload]; // and this,
  [[webview mainFrame] loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://example.com/"]]]; // and this.
}

@end

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This is all my code. I've just started working on this project.

I've tried using a button in the ViewController . That works, but I need this to be a menu item.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

instead of creating a new view controller:

    ViewController * vc = [[ViewController alloc] init];

try:

    ViewController * vc = (ViewController *)[[[NSApplication sharedApplication] mainWindow] contentViewController];

to call the current view controller