Well, tell that to the guy who wrote the Currency Converter Using
Bindings tutorial. See the last sentence here:
"This concrete example should help you understand what the value
binding’s configuration implies: The content of the text field is
bound to the value of the exchangeRate key, which Cocoa bindings finds
on the model object using key-value coding. Cocoa bindings knows to
look for that key in the model object that is bound to thecontent
outlet of the controller specified by the Bind to aspect—in this
example, the controller is theNSObjectController instance you
configured earlier, whose content outlet points to the Converter
object you instantiated in the nib file."
And you wonder why I am still confused. That paragraph from Apple
directly contradicts what you just said.
The Converter object is continually referred to as the Model Object.
That is exactly how mine are set up - connected to the Controller
Object. The tutorial says nothing about File's Owner.
And, if I don't understand something, I will ask why. This is not
magic - there is actual computer code behind that File's Owner
concept, and it is deterministic, not vague, not abstract, not a
philosophical enigma, not random, not ambiguous. If I had the source
code I could see what it does.
Despite teaching OB/GYN for 17 years, this is why computer science is
always my main interest. I've written firmware before we called it
firmware. I have never NOT been able to grasp something until this and
bindings. Aaron says lots of people have trouble understanding File's
Owner, so I can only conclude that it's the documentation, or lack
thereof.
And yes, I have read that MVC thing over and over and over.
On May 25, 2008, at 2:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My NSArrayControllers can be bound to model objects without anything
going through File's Owner.
Really? That implies that your model is contained within the nib,
which is not how MVC is supposed to work. The nib should contain the
V (View) and possibly C (Controller) parts of MVC, but it should not
contain the M (Model).
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