Re: Attempt to nest an NSCollectionView fails.
Re: Attempt to nest an NSCollectionView fails.
- Subject: Re: Attempt to nest an NSCollectionView fails.
- From: Kevin Perry <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:35:17 -0700
Actually, you can still give this a try.
The Leopard-style NSCollectionViewItem was restricted to replicating just the prototype view so the array controller the prototype view was bound to would not be replicated. Since SnowLeopard uses a nib for the prototype view, the entire nib will be replicated each time a new NSCollectionViewItem is instantiated, hence it can create one array controller per item view.
Using this approach, you can still support Leopard by overriding -newItemForRepresentedObject: and instantiating the same nib yourself, instead of using the view replication implementation provided by NSCollectionView.
-Kevin
On Mar 23, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Brian Krisler wrote:
> Since I am testing this in a sample app as a proof-of-concept, I have
> a single nib. Plus I have a requirement to support Leopard, so applying
> Snow Leopard specific code is not an option.
>
> After some further investigation, I thing the issue is with my NSArrayController
> object in my nib file. What I would really want is an NSArrayController
> for each view within the CollectionView, however it appears to me that this
> is not what is actually happening. I think that when I bind my NSCollectionViewItem
> representedObject.blockItems to my NSArrayController, this does not create
> a unique array controller for each CollectionViewItem.
>
> I think my option is to create my layout by hand and give up on attempting to
> use an NSCollectionView. I was thinking the collection view would save me
> some work. Appears to not be the case.
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
>
> Brian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Perry" <email@hidden>
> To: "Brian Krisler" <email@hidden>
> Cc: email@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:07:03 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: Attempt to nest an NSCollectionView fails.
>
> I'm not sure this is really a usage case that I'd expect to be well tested, since it seems a little out of the ordinary.
>
> Anyway, which approach are you using for your prototype view? Is the view in the same nib, or have you factored it out into a separate nib, using the fact that NSCollectionViewItem became a subclass of NSViewController in Snow Leopard? If you're using the former, then the bindings may very well not be transferred correctly to each replicated view. Either switch to the Snow Leopard approach (highly recommended -- see the AppKit release notes for more details), or you can try overriding -newItemForRepresentedObject: and set up the bindings yourself.
>
> -Kevin
>
> On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Brian Krisler wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to nest an NSCollectionView inside an existing collection view and am not having much luck. The example I am building runs without issue, however the nested values do not appear.
>>
>> I currently have two model classes:
>>
>> @interface BlockModel : NSObject {
>> NSString *blockTitle;
>> NSMutableArray *blockItems;
>> }
>> @property (readwrite, retain) NSString *blockTitle;
>> @property (readwrite, retain) NSMutableArray *blockItems;
>> @end
>>
>> and
>>
>> @interface BlockItem : NSObject {
>> NSString *itemName;
>> NSString *itemDescription;
>> }
>> @property (readwrite, retain) NSString *itemName;
>> @property (readwrite, retain) NSString *itemDescription;
>> @end
>>
>> In my delegate, I have an NSMutableArray of blockModels.
>>
>> Then in Interface Builder, I have an NSCollection view with a label and a nested NSCollection view. The label contains the BlockModel.blockTitle (which displays correctly).
>>
>> To get content into the nested view, I have an Array Controller with the Content Array bound to the Collection View Item from the parent and a model Key Path of: representedObject.blockItems
>>
>> My nested collection view has its content bound to my Array Controller arrangedObjects. And my array controller is configured to be an object controller with the keys: itemName and itemDescription. I then have two labels in my nested collection view bound to the nested collection view item representedObject.itemName and representedObject.itemDescription.
>>
>> When I execute my code, I can see a few blocks with the proper titles, however the nest view is completely empty.
>>
>> Is there a step that I am missing?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Brian
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