Thank you very much for you response! I know KVC and KVO. I have read on Cocoa Bindings and really not found what I looked for. I experimented and realised that bindings set the value to variable (or value in dictionary) only when you edit the view (text field in my example) but I set default values in IB (as set title prop) and bindings invalidates them -- the fields become empty when UI is loaded. Only I wish to save all of them into plist like collection of dictionaries and arrays when I click the save button. I need not any interaction I only need to set them from plist when UI is loaded and save them by request .
Can you give me some advice? On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 7:34 PM, Keary Suska <cocoa-...@esoteritech.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2017, at 5:52 PM, Ariel Feinerman <arielfap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I have finished the core of my programme and now I am designing the UI. > The > > issue is that it has several tabs and about a hundred fields. I wish to > > make a mechanism which can gather values and save them in the > hierarchical > > structure of NSArrays and NSDictionaries which I can send to core > library, > > save as plist or map into XML. And, of course, I should be able to > restore > > UI from it . > > > > I guess Cocoa Bindings can do all of that. However, I have never used it > > and do not know where to begin. Any examples and suggestions will be > highly > > appreciated. > > If you haven’t already, read the Key-Value Coding and Key-Value Observing > guides. Make sure all of your model classes are compliant with both. Then > read the Cocoa Bindings Programming Topics guide, which has links to all > the other docs so you can start there if you prefer. Read through all the > linked supported docs as well. That will be enough for most > implementations. If or when you get into issues not addressed in those > documents you will find most answers in the archives. Cocoa bindings have > been around for a really long time and have changed very little since their > inception so any (good) advice on the subject will still be relevant > regardless of how old. And what is not addressed in the archives can be > addressed here but please be specific and reference all of the involved > objects, binding names and key paths. > > Oh, and avoid storyboards at this stage as (IMHO) they are unintuitive and > flout all other MVC documentation. > > Keary Suska > Esoteritech, Inc. > "Demystifying technology for your home or business" > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/arielfapple%40gmail.com > > This email sent to arielfap...@gmail.com -- best regards Ariel _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
