Peter. Thank you very much.
On Aug 14, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Peter Ammon wrote: > You can get the left and right expressions, etc. by calling through to super: > > NSComparisonPredicate *superPredicate = [super > predicateWithSubpredicates:subpredicates]; > NSExpression *lhs = [superPredicate leftExpression], *rhs = > [superPredicate rightExpression]; > ... > > You would return a new predicate constructed from from the pieces of super's > predicate, except substitute in your own modifier. > > -Peter > > On Aug 13, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: > >> Peter hello, first of all thanks for the reply. >> >> So yes, I need to cross a to-many relationship. let me see if I got this >> straight because my mind was heading in that same direction you commented, >> just I didn't know what to use or what was the name of the artifact, in this >> case the NSComparasionPredicateModifier. >> >> So due the fact that I already have overwritten NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate >> to enlarge the Floating-Decimal NSTextfield of the right expression, I would >> take that approach first, overwriden the predicateWithSubpredicates method >> and doing the following: >> >> - (NSPredicate *)predicateWithSubpredicates:(NSArray *)subpredicates{ >> NSPredicate * predicate = [NSComparasionPredicate >> predicateWithLeftExpression:(NSExpression *)lhs >> rightExpression:(NSExpression*)rhs modifier: NSAllPredicateModifier >> >> type:(NSPredicateOperatorType)type options:NSCaseInsensitivePredicateOption]; >> } >> >> I don't know what lhs, rhs and type must be. should I pass [[self >> leftExpresions] objectAtIndex:0] and also for the rightExpresion? or does it >> comes from the subpredicates parameter?. >> >> sorry I got little confused there... :( >> >> Thx >> >> Gustavo >> >> >> On Aug 13, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Peter Ammon wrote: >> >>> >>> On Aug 13, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: >>> >>>> Hello all once again. >>>> >>>> I have been searching but I hadn't found something useful, so please >>>> before if you know a place I can look at let me know. >>>> >>>> I have these 3 Entities >>>> >>>> ExpenditureGroup: >>>> name >>>> icon. >>>> ----------------------- >>>> toExpenditures. ->> >>>> >>>> >>>> Expenditure >>>> creationDate >>>> location >>>> total >>>> -------------------- >>>> toExpenditureGroup -> >>>> toExpenditureDetails ->> >>>> >>>> >>>> ExpenditureDetail >>>> detailDescrb >>>> subTotal >>>> ---------------------- >>>> toExpenditure -> >>>> >>>> also I have an arrayController that fetches all the ExpenditureGroup >>>> Entities called _expenditureGorupArrayController. >>>> >>>> in my predicate editor I added the NSPredicateEditorRowTemplates with key >>>> paths for toExpenditures.location, toExpenditures.creationDate, >>>> toExpenditures.total, toExpenditures.toExpenditrueDetails.detailDescrb and >>>> finally toExpenditures.toExpenditureDetails.subTotal. >>>> >>>> I dunno if those last 2 are ok.. my guess NO. >>>> >>>> anyway, when I set the predicate, Im setting into the >>>> _expenditureGroupArrayController setFilterPredicate, and pass the >>>> predicate I just created, but nothing seems to work. >>> >>> Hi Gustavo, >>> >>> It looks like you want your predicate to cross a "to-many" relation. Is >>> that right? If so, you need to create a predicate that has an >>> NSComparisonPredicateModifier that knows how to cross to-many relations >>> (that is, either NSAllPredicateModifier or NSAnyPredicateModifier). >>> >>> If you're using NSPredicateEditor to create the predicate, then the >>> RowTemplate has to know to create a predicate with the right modifier. >>> Unfortunately you cannot yet set that up in IB, but you can do it >>> programmatically, by passing the right NSComparisonPredicateModifier to one >>> of the initWith... methods on NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate (see its header). >>> >>> You can also subclass NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate and override >>> -predicateWithSubpredicates: to create an NSPredicate with the proper >>> modifier. >>> >>> Hope that helps, let me know if that's not clear, >>> -Peter >>> >> > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com