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Re: adding something to a setter
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Re: adding something to a setter


  • Subject: Re: adding something to a setter
  • From: Yi Lin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:54:08 -0700

It's perhaps helpful to remember that property was introduce to remove the
annoyance with having to define boilerplate accessor for 90% of your
properties. People are now writing 90% less accessor code, so writing one
more for your case below seems tolerable. After all, it's just a few lines
of code.

Yi

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Torsten Curdt <email@hidden> wrote:

> The property syntax is great until you need one more thing.
>
> Think of a NSView and that view displays a value.
>
>  @synthesize value;
>
> Now you also want to setNeedsDisplay: when a new value is set. So one
> can override the setter.
>
>  - (void)setValue:(NSString*)theValue
>  {
>   ...
>   [self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
>  }
>
> but - you would have to implement the setter yourself. No big deal -
> but... it sucks.
> Is there a way to forward the setting to the originally synthesized
> setter? Super cannot be it.
>
> Of course one could add another selector that to the interface
>
>  - (void) setValueAndUpdateDisplay:(NSString*)theValue
>  {
>    self.value = theValue;
>   [self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
>  }
>
> ...but that sucks, too.
>
> There gotta be a better way!
> How do you deal with this?
>
> cheers,
> Torsten
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