On 19 May 2008, at 13:29, Steven Hamilton wrote:
I have a core data master-detail interface that consists of a sourcelist on the left and a tableview.The source list displays object from a core data entity. THe table view will be populated by a custom datasource as I have to do some data munging on the way from core data to the tableview. My custom controller (datasource) is based on NSObject and has the standard tableview delegate methods.The tableview is also populated based on the selected item in the source list. So I've setup a notification from the outlineview to call a method in my custom controller. This works fine and when I execute it I'm trying to get the outlineview's treecontrollers selection like so;NSString *accountName = @"default"; //set initial string value NSLog(accountName); // check loggingobject = [MLoutlineViewController selection]; //get selection object from treecontroller (proxy of core data entity) accountName = [object valueForKey:@"name"]; //get name property from objectThe object being returned from the selection is always NULL. Console shows the following;2008-05-19 22:25:46.990 moolahcoredata[664:10b] Cannot perform operation without a managed object context2008-05-19 22:25:46.996 moolahcoredata[664:10b] defaultNow, I know the context error is probably because the outlineview starts up with an item selected, probably before core data is initialised properly. I've also read that every controller has to have the context bound. My controller is based on NSObject, it doesn't have bindings and I'd rather do things programmatically just now. Do I need to somehow use the context to get the selection? If so, how? I know context is needed for adding, fetching etc but to get an object from a treecontroller? I don't think so somehow.
A few things here make me think that you haven't got the idea of using NSControllers at all. If you've coded up an NSOutlineView datasource then the tree controller has nothing to do with your setup. Without bindings how have you linked the tree controller to the outline view? The way its traditionally (and designed to be) used is that the tree controller is the outline view's data source. The tree controller is then bound to the managed object context.
There are many tutorials online about how to set this up with and without Core Data. Can you clarify your setup please.
Jon
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