Re: Refreshing an NSTableView with an NSMutableArray dataSource

FROM : Simon Wolf
DATE : Mon May 26 21:56:39 2008

On 26 May 2008, at 19:52, Hamish Allan wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Simon Wolf <<email_removed>> 
> wrote:
>

>> I know this is a horrible newbie question but I am hoping that 
>> someone can
>> simply confirm that I'm not missing something. Am I correct in 
>> assuming that
>> the only way to reflect changes made to an NSMutableArray in an 
>> NSTableView
>> which is using the array as a dataSource is by using reloadData?

>
> Yes. But here's what you may be missing: the NSTableView is not using
> the NSMutableArray as a datasource. It is using a controller object
> that happens to be quizzing an NSMutableArray to provide its answers,
> but could just as well be quizzing a database or a web service.


Thanks Hamish. I did miss that the whole controller object is the 
dataSource rather than just the NSMutableArray but it is stupidly 
obvious once I look at my code again.

Simon