On Oct 14, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:

> With an NSOutlineView driven by an NSTreeController, I’m having trouble 
> figuring out how to programmatically select an item: given one of my model 
> objects, how do I tell the controller or view to select it?
> 
> NSTreeController has a .selectedObjects property, which is great for 
> _getting_ the selection, but for some reason it’s a read-only property 
> (unlike in NSArrayController), so I can’t use it to _set_ the selection.
> 
> But if I go through the outline view, its ‘item’ objects are the NSTreeNodes 
> managed by the controller, not my model objects, and I don’t see any clean 
> way to map from a model object to its tree node. It seems like I’d have to 
> write a recursive function to search the entire NSTreeNode hierarchy for one 
> whose representedObject is my model object. Surely that can’t be the only way 
> to do this?


I used the method described here on a project using NSTreeController and 
bindings to populate an outline view:

http://blog.wilshipley.com/2006/04/pimp-my-code-part-10-whining-about.html

I'm not aware of any changes to NSTreeController/bindings that would replace 
this approach, but I'm always ready to be pleasantly surprised. :-)


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