This table describes the changes to Document-Based Applications Overview.
| Date | Notes | 
|---|---|
| 2009-01-12 | Removed private constant from document types listing. | 
| 2009-01-06 | Added advice for setting up nibs with NSWindowController as file's owner. | 
| 2007-09-04 | Corrected typos. | 
| 2007-01-08 | Added information about using openUntitledDocumentAndDisplay:error: when the display flag is NO and fixed awkward phrase in "What is a Document?" article. | 
| 2006-05-23 | Added note that the Name field of the document type in the Info.plist is used to specify the document type in APIs. | 
| 2006-03-08 | Added several new articles and revisions throughout. Updated for Mac OS Xv10.4. Made editorial revisions, rewrote introduction, added an index, and fixed errors. Changed title from "Document-Based Applications." | 
New articles added are “Message Flow in the Document Architecture,” “Creating Multiple-Document-Type Applications,” “Autosaving in the Document Architecture,” and “Error Handling in the Document Architecture.”  | |
| 2004-08-31 | Added a table of contents (a list of the questions) to “Frequently Asked Questions” for HTML version. Added annotated list of articles to introduction.  | 
| 2003-11-12 | Clarified that HTML is not fully supported for reading and writing in “Storing Document Types Information in the Application's Property List.”  | 
| 2003-11-06 | Corrected references and links to documents referring to additional property list information in “Frequently Asked Questions.”  | 
Updated description and art for editing document types in “Storing Document Types Information in the Application's Property List.”  | |
| 2003-06-11 | Property list samples in “Storing Document Types Information in the Application's Property List” have been updated to current format.  | 
| 2003-06-06 | Clarified in first table of “Implementing a Document-Based Application” that there is one NSDocument per document, rather than saved file (since a document may not have been saved yet.  | 
Added links to Performance programming topics in “Window Closing Behavior.”  | |
| 2003-04-21 | First-responder action method for “Save As” and “Save To” corrected.  | 
| 2003-02-07 | First-responder action method for “Revert” corrected.  | 
| 2003-01-17 | Changed title and made minor corrections to “Storing Document Types Information in the Application's Property List” (formerly “The Document Types Information Property List”).  | 
In “Frequently Asked Questions,” removed the section “How can I support stationery documents?” pending revision.  | |
| 2002-12-03 | Corrected typo in method name in “Creating a Subclass of NSDocumentController” task.  | 
| 2002-11-12 | Revision history was added to existing topic. It will be used to record changes to the content of the topic.  | 
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