Re: folder content as model for NSTableView

FROM : Torsten Curdt
DATE : Fri Feb 15 23:50:02 2008

On 15.02.2008, at 20:56, Kyle Sluder wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Torsten Curdt <<email_removed>> 
> wrote:

>>  I'd assume I would have to come up with a FolderController extending
>>  either NSObjectController or NSController. Or extend
>>  NSArrayController and fill the array from the folder.

>
> Or go old-school and provide a data source.  Probably easier in 
> this situation.


Ehm ...I am still a newbie that basically started my first real Cocoa 
project about 1,5 weeks ago. So old-school "data source" does not 
tell me that much yet :) Care to elaborate?

>>  In general the problem I see is that the model could change
>>  "underneith". A file could have been deleted/added outside the
>>  application and not through the controller. Of course I could poll
>>  the directory for changes ...or is there a way to register to 
>> receive
>>  file modification events?

>
> New in Leopard: FSEvents.  Tiger and below have fseventsd, but it's 
> private.


OK ...then I will go for polling - for now. Still waiting for the new 
MBPs to switch to Leopard ;)

cheers
--
Torsten