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Editing a dictionary using NSTableView
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Editing a dictionary using NSTableView


  • Subject: Editing a dictionary using NSTableView
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:29:50 +1100

Let's say I have a NS(Mutable)Dictionary and I'd like to make a very simple editor for its keys and values. So I have a NSTableView with two columns, key and value. The dictionary can contain any mix of strings and numbers, and the numbers can be ints or reals.

I find that when setting an edited value for a given key, everything gets converted to a string, because the object type returned by the table is a string. (The column type for value is a string, but numbers passed as the object value are automatically converted. I'm not using a formatter.)

Is there a simple way to allow the table to edit a value but preserve its type in the dictionary? I could check the type of the key I'm about to set and convert each value to that type, but it seems very clunky. I feel I've missed something obvious.

tia,

Graham
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