NSArrayController making copies of my objects?
NSArrayController making copies of my objects?
- Subject: NSArrayController making copies of my objects?
- From: Trygve Inda <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:43:39 +0000
- Thread-topic: NSArrayController making copies of my objects?
I am trying to figure out exactly what is happening here.
I have a mutable dictionary where each object is also an NSMutableDictionay
containing 9 string objects.
NSMutableDictionary* myData; // this is in MyController object.
In a window, I have an NSTableView whose column data is tied to an
NSArrayController. The NSArrayController is bound to myData with IB:
Bind to MyController, keypath: myData.@allValues
This all works fine, except....
I would expect the following to have the same addresses:
NSMutableDictionary* myItemA =
[[[MyController myData] allValues] objectAtIndex:0];
NSMutableDictionary* arrayContItemA =
[[myArrayController arrangedObjects] objectAtIndex:0];
The content is the same (the 9 strings) so it is coming from the right
place, but the addresses of the objects are different so for some reason the
NSArrayController is making a copy of my dictionary object somewhere along
the line.
I understand that the array returned by allValues is not mutable so the
NSArrayController may need to make a mutable copy of it, but the internal
objects are mutable... So why is it copying my objects?
If I add the following just before the above two lines, then the objects
have the same address as expected.
[MyController willChangeValueForKey:@"myData"];
[MyController didChangeValueForKey:@"myData"];
So I gather this is forcing the NSArrayController to write it's
copied/cached values back to myData.
The point is that I need to be able to edit the items in the NSTable, then
write myData back to disk and have the changes be saved. If I never call
will/didChangeValueForKey, then the changes are lost.
Since I am not changing myData directly but it is being changed by the
NSTableView and NSArrayController, why does this happen this way?
Thanks,
Trygve
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