On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:44 , Jens Alfke wrote:

> To help bind my data model to AppKit tables, I’ve written a custom class that 
> implements KVC collection accessors to define a mutable-array property. That 
> is, it implements methods like -countOfEntries, objectInEntriesAtIndex:, 
> insertObject:inEntriesAtIndex, etc. I can then bind this as the contentArray 
> property of an NSArrayController, and use that controller to drive a table 
> view and master-detail UI.
> 
> I’d like to avoid using a separate class, though (so I can make this setup 
> more easily reusable.) Is it feasible to subclass NSArrayController and put 
> the collection access methods in the subclass? Then I’d just have an 
> “EntryArrayController” class I could drop into my nib. From the docs I can’t 
> figure out whether this is an appropriate thing to do.
> 
> —Jens (still mildly confused by bindings after all these years :-p)

(I started writing a longer reply to this, but it turned into a rant about 
NS…Controller objects that bored even me. Here's the essence…)

Don't.


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