Re: help with data browser?
Re: help with data browser?
- Subject: Re: help with data browser?
- From: Bob Sabiston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:16:34 -0500
original email:
I have a bunch of time-based data that I would like to view in a
window with a scroll bar, so that I can scroll up and down and see
it all. It's a simple list of times with associated information at
that time, like position, etc. In addition to time there are five
or six other variables that I need to see in the table. In
traditional Mac toolbox it would be a pain to set up such a simple
thing, but it seems like Cocoa is meant to handle that easily.
However, not knowing Cocoa beyond going about halfway through a few
books on it a couple of years ago, I don't know the easiest way to
construct this. Are there any concise instructions for building
something like this and hooking it up? I don't really want to get
into full blown cocoa programming right now--this will be inside of
a Carbon app, but I have already got the simple Cocoa-in-Carbon
sample code window working, so I am not worried about that part of it.
I am just looking for instructions on setting up a scrolling window
of tabulated data, if possible, without having to know all the in
and outs of Cocoa or objective C. Anyone know where to find that?
reply:
If you take a look at the tutorial at <http://
www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000085.php>, you will learn all
you need to know to create the program you describe, probably
without writing a line of code. CoreData + Bindings + Interface
Builder = Programs.
Hello again,
I went through this tutorial and it does seem like it will work
for what I want to do. However, it is merely an interactive thing,
where what I have is a data list already constructed, thousands of
entries long. Is it a simple thing to create the data file
programmatically instead of interactively? I assume that is what
Core Data API is all about.
However, two newbie questions:
-- is the '.xml' file created in Library/Application Support for the
BlogDemo app in the tutorial a standard thing? That is, do all such
cocoa applications create a file like this?
-- Is this site the best thing for me to read to be able to construct
the table I need?
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/
index.html
Thanks
Bob
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