Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on-demand subscription access to thousands of learning resources.
- Create BookmarkCreate Bookmark
- Create Note or TagCreate Note or Tag
- DownloadDownload
- PrintPrint
Chapter 8. NSArrayController > Challenge 2
Challenge 2
In the first edition of this book, readers created the RaiseMan application without using NSArrayController or the bindings mechanism. (These features were added in Mac OS X 10.3.) To do so, readers used the ideas from previous chapters. The challege, then, is to rewrite the RaiseMan application without using NSArrayController or the bindings mechanism. Bindings often seem rather magical, and it is good to know how to do things without resorting to magic.
Be sure to start afresh with a new project—in the next chapter, we will build on your existing project.
The Person class will stay exactly the same. In RMDocument.xib, you will set the identifier of each column to be the name of the variable that you would like displayed (use the Attributes Inspector in Interface Builder). Then, the RMDocument class will be the dataSource of the table view and the target of the Create New Employee and Delete buttons. RMDocument will have an array of Person objects that it displays. To get you started, here is RMDocument.h:
