I actually solved this. It turns out I did not set the flag "Continuously
Update Value" on the binding so it would only update if you actually pressed
enter.
The name/setName methods I only defined to test if they were getting called and
attr_accessor actually generates these for you.
-Robert
On 9/02/2011, at 10:48 PM, Alan Skipp wrote:
> I think if you define an accessor for 'name' with attr_accessor as you have
> done with someTextField, then this should work.
> You can then remove the accessor methods you have created for the 'name'
> instance var.
>
> On 9 Feb 2011, at 08:51, Robert Payne <robertpa...@me.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is technically supposed to work in MacRuby but it
>> definitely works in objective-c.
>>
>> class MyClass < NSWindowController
>>
>> attr_accessor :someTextField
>>
>> def name()
>> return @name
>> end
>>
>> def setName(value)
>> @name = value
>> end
>>
>> def windowDidLoad()
>> @name = "Robert"
>> self.someTextField.bind("value", toObject:self,
>> withKeyPath:"name", options:nil)
>> end
>>
>> end
>>
>> I also tried binding the text field's value directly via interface builder
>> but it doesn't work there either. Interestingly if you set the "name" on the
>> class inside MacRuby it'll update the text field but updating the text field
>> via the GUI doesn't bring the new value back down into MacRuby.
>>
>> Are bindings something that have to be done with Cocoa controllers?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Robert Payne
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