Re: Connecting lots of fields
Re: Connecting lots of fields
- Subject: Re: Connecting lots of fields
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:40:33 +0100
Hej,
On 2003-12-02, at 23.27, Bjvrn Carlstrvm wrote:
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A bit of a newbie question maybe. I'm having an object that serves as
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a datasource for a tableview. The datasource basically contains an
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array of records. I now want to display detailed information about the
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selected record in a view using several textfields. This seems like
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something thats probably been done a zillion times but I can't find an
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example in any of my books. How do I set it up in IB? Do I have to
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create an outlet in my dataSource for each of the fields of my record
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and fill them with the right information each time the user selects a
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different record, or is there an easier way?
That's usually how you would do it.
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Can I connect all my NSTextFields to my dataSource and have a methiod
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returning a value depending on which NSTextField called the method?
Text fields doesn't work like table views - they don't look up their
values by themselves, you need to set the values that they should have.
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I believe I'm looking for something with the same simplicity as I have
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when setting up an NSTableVIew with its different columns?
While I'm not sure it satisfies the "same simplicity" requirement, I
think that you might be able to get what you're looking for using the
new controller layer (only available on and post Panther):
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
ControllerLayer/index.html>
Perhaps in particular:
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
ControllerLayer/Tasks/ccwithbindingsplus.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/
20002083/BAJGCJFI>
j o a r
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