RE: Programmatic access to NSSearchField's Display Name?
RE: Programmatic access to NSSearchField's Display Name?
- Subject: RE: Programmatic access to NSSearchField's Display Name?
- From: "Jon C. Munson II" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:18:35 -0400
- Organization: JTA Enterprises LLC
Namaste!
Thanks!
Too bad there isn't any way to access "the list" otherwise... I read
something about that not being possible due to a copy not being made...
So, where did you find this stuff? I looked in the docs and didn't any of
that referenced from the perspective of the search field.
Peace, Love, and Light,
/s/ Jon C. Munson II
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Programmatic access to NSSearchField's Display Name?
>
>
> On 6 May 2009, at 22:43, email@hidden wrote:
>
> > Namaste!
> >
> > Is there a way to programmatically access the Display Name attribute
> > of the search field for a given predicate?
> >
> > I've got a number of predicates set up via IB and several of them I
> > need to be able to change the display name at run time.
> >
>
> If you create your searchField bindings manually rather than in IB
> then you can recreate them as and when you require with specific
> display names:
>
> NSString *search1 = @"(unitName CONTAINS[cd] $value OR
> unitPluralName CONTAINS[cd] $value)";
> NSString *search2 = @"(messageStringValue CONTAINS[cd] $value)";
>
> // search all
> NSDictionary *options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
>
NSLocalizedString(@"All",
> @"Search field placeholder"),
> NSDisplayNameBindingOption,
> search1,
> NSPredicateFormatBindingOption,
> nil];
> [self.searchField bind:NSPredicateBinding
>
toObject:entryController
>
withKeyPath:@"filterPredicate"
> options: options];
>
> Note that searchField exposes additional bindings every time you bind
> a predicate. so the next binding requires a suffix to
> NSPredicateBinding.
>
> // search entry
> options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
>
NSLocalizedString(@"Entry",
> @"Search field placeholder"),
> NSDisplayNameBindingOption,
> search2,
> NSPredicateFormatBindingOption,
> nil];
>
> [self.searchField bind:[NSPredicateBinding
> stringByAppendingString:@"2"]
>
toObject:entryController
>
withKeyPath:@"filterPredicate"
> options: options];
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Peace, Love, and Light,
> >
> > /s/ Jon C. Munson II
> >
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