Another newbie question
Another newbie question
- Subject: Another newbie question
- From: Paul Archibald <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 21:22:25 -0700
Comrades:
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.)
Paul Archibald
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"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size
of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in
full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like
the plague."
Edsger W. Dijkstra, (Dutch computing scientist)
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