On Aug 14, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Markus Spoettl wrote:
On Aug 14, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Ron Lue-Sang wrote:
Here's how I look at your situation.
Your view is bound to some property. It's job is to listen for KVO
notifications and redraw when it gets the KVO notification. That's
it. One input. When there's a change on that one input, then redraw.
What you have is 2 inputs and only one notification.
ValueTransformers are meant to be less stateful than you're
intending them to be.
You might be tempted to try adding a notification for your celsius/
fahrenheit choice and call [self setNeedsDisplay]; But that's not
what I'd do.
I'd have whatever-controller-my-view-is-bound-to have a property
that represents the temperature based on the current settings. It
would receive the userDefault notification and update its temp.
property.
We've never explicitly defined a "do this to make the view refresh
its bound values". The main reason is that that's a messy way to
mentally model the way bindings work.
Sorry if that doesn't answer the question you asked, but hopefully
this is information you can use to get work done.
Thanks for the response, though it's unfortunate for me I guess.
The problem is that I actually have a lot arrays of lots of objects
each with a number of different properties that can be displayed in
more than one way (all dependent on one preference settings).
Putting these through proxies/proxy arrays so that I can use
bindings and KVO to make process automatic sounds like a terribly
painful way to go - plus it defeats the purpose of bindings a little
(glue code wise).
I have suspected that my use of ValueTransformers is not quite what
they were intended for but they actually do this job very well.
Anyway, thanks for the advice.
Regards
Markus
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Hmm yea, that's a bummer.
If I were building the views you're using, I'd publish another binding
in/from those views. Like "dataType" or
"ridiculouslyLongGermanStyleNameDescribingWhatTheBindingIsFor".
And then your views would really have two inputs and you'd actually
draw differently in your drawRect method because you can change your
view state in response to the KVO notification your view gets from the
2 things it's bound to - and the handling of the KVO notification can
safely do [self setNeedsDisplay] and know that that's gonna work.
But I bet you're just trying to use plain old textFields. Yea?
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RONZILLA
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