Re: NSTableView, NSArrayController, NSManagedObjectContext

FROM : mmalc crawford
DATE : Tue Jan 01 19:49:40 2008

On Jan 1, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Ture Pålsson wrote:

> Doing so means that the controller tracks inserts into and deletions 
> from its managed object
> context for its entity."
>

The key word there is "its".  You're inserting into another context.

> Oh well, assuming that I do need to call refresh: on the
> NSArrayController, how does one solve this architecturally?
>

Exactly as you appear to have already done.  Register for change 
notifications from the second context and update the array controller 
on receipt.

> Now, if I need to nudge the NSControllers to make them update 
> themselves, that means that the
> model objects need to know about the controllers.
>

I'm not sure how that follows?  The model objects don't need to know 
about the controllers -- controllers know about other controllers. 
Managed objects themselves don't need to know...

mmalc