Re: Using NSArrayController with non-array datastructures

FROM : John Brownlow
DATE : Thu Apr 14 21:24:15 2005

awesome! thank you!

On Apr 14, 2005, at 11:42 AM, mmalcolm crawford wrote:

>> For reasons which will become a bit clearer after April 29, I am 
>> implementing a linked list which I want to control with an 
>> NSArrayController. The most obvious way of doing this is simply to 
>> bind the content of the array controller to a method which gets and 
>> sets the linked list as an NSArray. But I wonder if there are subtler 
>> and better ways of doing it? Is NSArrayController's only interaction 
>> with its content object via the accessor or are there methods I could 
>> implement which it would use? Obviously it would be more efficient 
>> for me to implement addObject than for the controller to add it to an 
>> array, and then me set the entire linked list using the array.
>>

> See:
> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/

> KeyValueCoding/Concepts/AccessorConventions.html>
> "Indexed Accessor Patterns for To-Many Properties"
>

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