Re: SliderText = NSSlider + NSTextField

FROM : douglas a. welton
DATE : Thu Jan 31 18:51:50 2008

On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:47 PM, John Richetta wrote:

> I'd like to create a unified "SliderText" control, that maintains a 
> single numeric value, using both a slider and a text field (the 
> latter providing high precision, when required).  Changing either 
> one should update the other, and notify clients of changes, and 
> actions, as normal controls would.  I'd also like this pairing to be 
> as "self maintaining" as possible: I don't want the UI controller 
> (window, panel, etc.), to deal with any messages beyond those it 
> might receive from a single control.  Also, creating one of these in 
> IB should be no harder than copy/pasting an existing paired control.
>
> (Since I have roughly a hundred of these in my application, with 
> more to come, it's unacceptable tedium, code duplication, and 
> maintenance inefficiency to require the UI controller to synchronize 
> these controls.)



Doesn't this sound like a job for Bindings and NSCollectionView?