What I'd suggest is to assign each selection with a tag number in IB
(or programatically if need be). Then in your code you can get the tag:
int colorID = [[colorButton selectedItem] tag];
Assign each its corresponding ID as the tag like 4 for black, 1 for
red, ect.
On May 29, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Paul Archibald wrote:
Hi, its me again.
My interface consists (mostly) of a bunch of popup buttons with
various values in them. Out user will set up all these popups and
click "go", and the app will emit a string which can be used to run
a command line program. So, for example we have a couple of popups
like:
Color
-black
-red
-green
-blue
Size
-small
-medium
-large
So, lets say that the command line wants something like:
"runfoo -color 2 -size 1"
and that the "runfoo" help file says
-color : red = 1, blue = 2, green = 3, black = 4, default = 4
-size : small = 1, medium = 2, large = 3, default = 3
So, here is my question. What is the best way to translate between
the popup item and the value? I was thinking of building an
NSDictionary with item_string_key/command_line_argument_value pairs,
but I realized that I have a bunch of different "default" values
(color default = 4, size default = 3).
I guess I could have a dictionary for each popup, but that seems
clunky. I see there is something called "Bindings" for menu/popup
items, is that a way to go? (I am trying not to put the info in the
NIB, I would prefer code, where I can see it.)
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