On May 13, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
This is a little bit harder than it seems. You certainly want to
have the document undo manager keep track of the selection changes,
in order to stay in sync with the really undoable changes. So:
1. You need to add a transient property for the selection to your
managed data model. (Or non-transient, if you want the selection to
persist when the document is re-opened.)
Done. Works well.
2. You need to keep track of the changes to the selection by
modifying your Core Data selection property whenever the selection
changes. However, you don't want these to be recorded as undoable
actions (most likely, although there are scenarios -- think of
Photoshop -- where selection changes are undoable), so you have to
disable the undo manager temporarily around such changes. (Don't
forget to invoke processPendingChanges before disabling the undo
manager, and again before enabling it.)
Currently I track the selection using NSArrayController's selection
methods. I have a custom view that figures out what the selection
should or should not be and programatically sets the array
controller's selection. It works very well and is clean with not much
code. Thus pushing the selection from the view to the model is easy,
just do it when the selection is pushed to the array controller.
However, pulling selection changes from the model back into the array
controller appears to be challenging. It would seem like bindings
could help out here somehow. NSArrayController works with bindings and
so does Core Data. Why can't I simply bind the "selectionIndexes" of
the array controller to the "selected" model attribute. I have tried
this but I can't get the proper bound to object and key path to work.
Perhaps NSArrayController is not designed to work in this fashion.
--Richard
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