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Re: ARC and NSObjectController bindings through file's owner
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Re: ARC and NSObjectController bindings through file's owner


  • Subject: Re: ARC and NSObjectController bindings through file's owner
  • From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:05:09 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:45:04 -0500, Ken Thomases said:

>A zeroing weak property changes without emitting KVO change
>notifications.  Therefore, it's not KVO-compliant.  Basically, weak
>properties are incompatible with KVO and bindings.

Ouch!  Didn't realise that.  That's pretty annoying, as weak is useful in ARC because ARC doesn't deal with cycles like GC does.  I almost never used weak under GC but am now sprinkling them everywhere to deal with cycles.  :(

Is weak KVO-compliant under GC?  I ask because, for now anyway, I'm trying to keep my codebase both GC & ARC compliant.

So I changed my property from weak back to strong, but it didn't fix my issue.

I also tried this handy hack to check for KVO+weak, but it didn't find anything either:
<https://gist.github.com/vgrichina/4515445>

Know any other way to catch use of KVO+weak?

>Likewise, if any other property along that key path is changed in a non-
>KVO-compliant manner, that would lead to the same sort of error.

Other than use of 'weak', how else might something be changed in a non-KVO-compliant manner in ARC but not GC?  Again, the error is only in ARC and not GC.

One thing I just noticed is that NSWindowController's 'document' property is not actually documented as KVO-compliant.  Maybe that's my problem... but I've been binding through it for over a decade now!

Cheers,

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada



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