Re: question regarding getting data from NSComoBox
Re: question regarding getting data from NSComoBox
- Subject: Re: question regarding getting data from NSComoBox
- From: Lon Giese <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:49:19 -0700
Hi, Your example seems pretty simple... have you stepped through it
with a debugger.. can you see where he path is not being built right?
The only other BIG suggestion I can make without additional information
is to use NSString's " Working with paths" methods... instead of the
normal string method. " Working with paths" methods guarantee that no
matter what file system is in use it always uses the correct path
separators.... I use it all the time it is really nice not to worry
about the separators.... Maybe this is the problem....
On May 17, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Alan Smith wrote:
Hi everyone,
I need to get the NSString value from two NSComboBoxes. I've tried
using type-casting but it doesn't wrok.
- (NSString*)fullStoragePath
{
NSString *importType = [@"/"
stringByAppendingString:(NSString*)[gameMenu
objectValueOfSelectedItem]];
importType = [importType stringByAppendingString:@" "];
importType = [importType
stringByAppendingString:(NSString*)[importMenu
objectValueOfSelectedItem]];
importType = [importType stringByAppendingString:@"s"];
return [textPaths storageFor:importType];
}
gameMenu and importMenu are the two comboboxes. They each have a
string in them, and in the awakeFromNib I used selectItemAtIndex on
them both.
'[textPaths storageFor:importType]'
TextPaths is a custom class with the method 'storageFor:' It takes
input and appends that on to ~/Application Support/EV Manager/ after
expanding the tilde. Then it returns the new string.
I shall demonstrate:
gameMenu = @"Plugin"
importMenu = @"EV Nova"
importType:
line 1: @"/EV Nova"
line 2: @"/EV Nova "
line 3: @"/EV Nova Plugin"
line 4: @"/EVNova Plugins"
line 5: @"/Users/alan/Library/Application Support/EV Manager/EV Nova
Plugins"
Now, I know that folder exists becuase I can see it in the Finder.
Also, something that suggests that it's not the folder or the path, is
that if I hard code the path it works fine, but I don't want to do
that. I test the path with fileExistsAtPath of NSFileManager.
So, my guess is that my type-casting is not working the way I want.
What can I do?
Thanks, Alan Smith
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