Re: Filtering the Contents of an Array Controller

FROM : Kevin Callahan
DATE : Mon Apr 11 20:44:28 2005

On Apr 11, 2005, at 11:37 AM, August Trometer wrote:

> I've got a subclass NSArrayController whose contents are displayed in
> a table via bindings. There are several types of objects in this list
> differentiated by various criteria. I'd like to let my users filter
> that list and show only the type (or types) that they want.
>
> My first attempt was to use my subclass and overwrite arrangedObjects:
> and filter there. However, because the list of objects is rather long,
> this resulted in poor redraw performance and jerkiness during
> scrolling.
>
> For various reasons (mostly performance and stability), I'd like to
> keep all the objects in the array and simply filter them. Is there a
> way to do this that I'm missing?


Have you looked at mmalc's  page?

<http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/controllers.html>

Filtering Controller

Shows custom array controller that interacts with a search field
(NSSearchField) to filter the displayed content of a table view.

-Kevin


>
> Thanks!
>
> August
>
>
>
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