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* >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mark.woollard%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to mark.wooll...@mac.com > _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com