On Oct 18, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Keary Suska wrote:
Well, entries in this case is redundant. If you subclass is designed to
manage an array of entries, then its content would simply be the array
itself. There is no need to abstract it out by the key. In fact, it is a code
smell to do so.
The
On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
Absolutely. I'll add here that NSArrayControllers are basically glue, and not
even (exactly) necessary glue. You can connect a table view directly to a
data model, without using an array controller. All the array controller does
is to add
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
On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:44 AM, 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:,
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:,
On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Keary Suska wrote:
In your subclass you could use the machinery afforded by
automaticallyPreparesContent, or simply set the content on awakeFromNib or
whenever it is needed.
Hm. So in other words I would implement the KVC methods in the subclass
On Oct 18, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Keary Suska wrote:
In your subclass you could use the machinery afforded by
automaticallyPreparesContent, or simply set the content on awakeFromNib or
whenever it is needed.
Hm. So in other words I would
On Oct 18, 2011, at 17:01 , Keary Suska wrote:
When dealing with collections even the best of us forget that in the MVC
approach the model for the NSArrayController is the array itself, and not the
object that contains it. The key and the collection KVC methods are simply a
way to acquire
