Hi Mark,

So I have a dictionary like so:  

        NSDictionary * countries = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:[NSArray 
arrayWithObjects:@"Australia",@"Canada",@"United Kingdom",@"United States",nil] 
forKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"au",@"ca",@"uk",@"us",nil]];

I want to present them alphabetically as menuItems in an NSPopUpButton.  I grab 
the list of keys:

        NSMutableArray * sortkeys  = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[countries 
allKeys]];

What I have come up with is this:

        [sortkeys sortUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(id obj1, id obj2) {
                return [(NSString*)obj1 compare:(NSString*)obj2 ];
        } ];

Is this a sane approach ? Seems a bit fussy to have to spec the cast like this. 
Or is this just the what-is of this kind of functionality?

~ Erik



On 2012-08-01, at 3:20 AM, Mark Woollard <m...@taptapas.com> wrote:

> Can you give a bit more info on what is stored in your NSArray? NSString? 
> NSManagedObject? NSDictionary? Something else?
> Regards
> Mark
> 
> On 1 Aug 2012, at 06:01, Erik Stainsby <erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca> wrote:
> 
>> The NSSortDescriptor documentation seems especially opaque to me tonight. 
>> Surely there is a useful short description somewhere … ?  *whimper*
>> 
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