to-Some Relationship (Core Data/IB questions)

2008-04-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Following on from a previous question (Core Data/IB questions), I am seeking advice again on how I should accomplish the following: I need to select an arbitrary number (i.e. not necessarily 1 or all) of objects from a set of all objects belonging to another entity. I assumed this was a

Re: Core Data/IB questions

2008-03-28 Thread Ian Jackson
From a quick look at the app in action, I'd say no. Say for example a school wanted to organise various clubs (chess club, debating club, objective-C club, etc). They could have an entity for each of the clubs, with venue, time, motto etc attributes. Since the members of each club will come

Re: Core Data/IB questions

2008-03-27 Thread Adam Gerson
Is what you are describing similar to the "To Dos" example at: http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/controllers.html Adam On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I may be so bold, I'd like to jump in on this question. I have a > similar situation,

Re: Core Data/IB questions

2008-03-27 Thread Ian Jackson
If I may be so bold, I'd like to jump in on this question. I have a similar situation, but I want to have a table representing a to-many relationship for entity1, which the user can populate by choosing any number of entries from a entity2. e.g. entity2 has 50 entries. entity1 1st

Re: Core Data/IB questions

2008-03-26 Thread Adam Gerson
I think that internally when you create a to-many core-data relationship the group of objects is stored as an NSSet as opposed to an array. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSSet_Class/Reference/Reference.html http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Co

Re: Core Data/IB questions

2008-03-26 Thread Rick Mann
On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Adam Gerson wrote: Each table should have its own ArrayController if the two tables represent the data from two different entities. Since you entities are related I am assuming one entity has a property that is a to-many relationship to the other entity. Set the Con

Re: Core Data/IB questions

2008-03-26 Thread Adam Gerson
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Rick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question 2: I can see how a text field gets populated when you select > an item in the table. How can I get a one table to populate based on > the selection in another? > Each table should have its own ArrayController if th

Core Data/IB questions

2008-03-26 Thread Rick Mann
I'm following the NSPersistentDocument Core Data tutorial, but changing things for my little app along the way. For example, instead of Employees and Departments, I have TrackPoints and Tracks (GPS tracks). After following a portion of the tutorial, I got a nice little master/ detail view,