Thanks a lot, I'll proceed as suggested.
Martin
On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Martin Hewitson
> <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>> Thanks, Kyle. I figured the answer would be something like this. OK, then
>> I'll need to rethink the architecture a bit. I was aiming for an Xcode-like
>> interface with potentially multiple views to the same file content, but
>> without using 'updates continuously' this is going to be more difficult to
>> achieve. If anyone has any good suggestions, I'd be delighted to hear them.
>
> Start by reading the text system documentation, and then re-reading
> it. :) Then try to build a simple app that has two windows looking at
> the same text storage, so that typing in one causes immediate
> corresponding changes in the other. That'll get you the base of what
> you need.
>
> As far as integrating with Core Data, you will certainly need custom
> logic to translate the NSTextStorage world into the KVC-based
> NSManagedObject world. Perhaps you should subclass NSTextStorage for
> use in your model objects, and have its special knowledge inform your
> NSManagedObject subclass of pertinent changes so it can update its
> serialized version of the text as appropriate. This gets you the
> updates continuously behavior you want but uses the framework
> correctly to do it.
>
> Again, it's not trivial, but certainly not impossible. Our apps certainly do
> it.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
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