On Jun 4, 2009, at 4:24 AM, Stefan Reitshamer wrote:
I'm getting flaky behavior from my KVO code and I'm wondering what
I'm doing wrong. I can't find any similar examples.
I have a pop-up button and 2 NSTableViews.
The pop-up button selection controls the content of the left
NSTableView. The left NSTableView's selection controls the content
of the right NSTableView.
The pop-up button and NSTableViews are bound to separate
NSArrayControllers.
Each NSArrayController is bound to a separate NSMutableArray
property in my app controller.
My app controller observes "selectionIndex" in the pop-up button's
NSArrayController and "selectedObjects" in the left NSArrayController.
On startup, the pop-up button is populated, which causes a call to
observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:. This sets the left
NSMutableArray, which in turn causes another (nested) call to
observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:, which sets the
right NSMutableArray.
There seems to be a race condition -- sometimes the left table view
is populated, sometimes the right, sometimes none. Each time I edit
the nib, the behavior changes.
If your code depends on the order that objects in the nib are
initialized, this may be the reason for unexpected behavior. Some
changes to a nib might effect this loading order, which should be
considered non-deterministic anyway.
Is this a bogus way to implement the dependent NSTableViews?
What's the right way?
If it is not necessary to route all the controller's content through
the app controller, you may have better luck hooking the controllers
together. Refer to this: <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/CocoaBindingsRef/BindingsText/NSArrayController.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/NSArrayController-DontLinkElementID_24
>
in particular the "contentObject" binding.
RightTVController contentObject -->
LeftTVController.selection.array_key_path
LeftTVController contentObject --->
PopUpController.selection.array_key_path
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Demystifying technology for your home or business"
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