Re: Selecting an object of a NSArrayController

FROM : Hank Heijink
DATE : Fri Jan 04 20:41:04 2008

Since there's only one entity that can be YES, you'd be faster and 
less memory-consuming if you just stored the index of the element that 
has YES, instead of storing YES/NO for every element and then having 
to find the right one.

On Jan 4, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Michael Varlik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an NSArrayController which controles entities.
> These entities have a boolean attribute and there is
> exactly one entitie where this attribute is YES, all
> the others are NO. When I want to select the one entity
> with the attribute set to YES, I iterate through the
> NSArrayController's arrangedObjects and when I find
> the entity, I call setSelectionIndex to the index of
> the object within arrangedObjects.
> This works pretty good, but I wonder if there is a more
> convenient way to perform this, something like
> "selectObjectWithValueForKey". Is there a way to do
> this?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Michael
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