Here's what it _sounds_ like you're trying to do. Let me know if I've
misunderstood:
* You have multiple table views.
* The data source logic for all of them is essentially the same.
* You are trying to have one _instance_ of your data source class be
the data source for all of your tables.
* You want some way for the data source methods to tell which table
view they are dealing with.
* Specifically, you want to be able to get some kind of name that
you can assign to the table view.
Here are my comments:
* You _could_ use the autosave name if in fact you want your tables
to autosave. Autosaving means that certain attributes of your table
view will be saved when your application quits and restored when you
relaunch. I'm not exactly sure offhand how autosaving works, and I
must say I could not dig up this information by searching the Xcode
documentation. One problem is that "autosave" is sometimes spelled
"auto save"; another problem is that "autosave" also seems to refer to
automatic saving of _documents_.
* Another option is to subclass NSTableView and add your own "name"
attribute. You'd have to have some code somewhere that sets this
attribute. Then [tableView name] would work. I'm not sure why you
thought it might work otherwise; there's no -name method in the docs
for NSTableView or any of its superclasses. (Actually I would call it
something more specific than "name", to avoid the possibility of name
collision in case Apple decides to add a "name" to NSTableView.)
* Another option is to add a "name" attribute to your data source
class, and create a separate data source instance for each table
view. The cost of this is trivial unless there would be a lot of
redundancy among the data source instances (and I mean a lot). It's
very likely you wouldn't be saving a meaningful amount of space by
using just one shared data source instance.
* I think it would help if you tell us what kind of information
these table views contain, and how the data source works. This seems
to be partly a design question and not just about whether NSTableView
has some method or other.
--Andy
On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Mr. Gecko wrote:
How would I get the name of a table view? I am trying to make all of
my tables use one class for the data source so I can make my code
more smaller. I know I can use autosave name but I am not sure if I
am suppose to use that or what it does.
Here is what I have tried already
[tableView name];
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