Re: Table View Blues

FROM : Andreas Mayer
DATE : Mon Nov 18 10:28:36 2002

Am Montag, 18.11.02 um 06:28 Uhr schrieb Rixstep:

> With the NSTableView, the delegate idea requires my program - my
> controlling class - to maintain a mutable array with all the
> records.

As Alex already pointed out, the table view does not care how you
maintain your data.

You simply get a request for the contents of any cell that's about to
be displayed and tell the table view what it should put there.

> I am going to get separate messages sent for every record in my table
> view

You will only get messages for those cells that are actually being
displayed, AFAIK.

> Even if I could associate data - without creating a class, something
> I would prefer, as this is just cold data to me and it's going to
> have to be formatted as CSV or TSV - with each record in a table
> view, I would still be stuck - or so I think - with individual calls
> to free() whenever my user wanted to start a new file.

I don't understand. If you would like to allocate one big chunck of
memory and manage it on your own - go ahead. Nothing is going to stop
you. Objective-C is a superset of C after all.


bye.  Andreas.
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