Re: Custom NSArrayController that manages its own array?
Re: Custom NSArrayController that manages its own array?
- Subject: Re: Custom NSArrayController that manages its own array?
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:01:27 -0700
On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:44 , Jens Alfke wrote:
> To help bind my data model to AppKit tables, I’ve written a custom class that implements KVC collection accessors to define a mutable-array property. That is, it implements methods like -countOfEntries, objectInEntriesAtIndex:, insertObject:inEntriesAtIndex, etc. I can then bind this as the contentArray property of an NSArrayController, and use that controller to drive a table view and master-detail UI.
>
> I’d like to avoid using a separate class, though (so I can make this setup more easily reusable.) Is it feasible to subclass NSArrayController and put the collection access methods in the subclass? Then I’d just have an “EntryArrayController” class I could drop into my nib. From the docs I can’t figure out whether this is an appropriate thing to do.
>
> —Jens (still mildly confused by bindings after all these years :-p)
(I started writing a longer reply to this, but it turned into a rant about NS…Controller objects that bored even me. Here's the essence…)
Don't.
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