Thanks for the info! I spent some time at NSCoder Night last night
poking around with attempting to convert an NSPredicate into an
NSCompoundPredicate using the TODParseKit and the BNF definition of
NSPredicate grammar in the docs, then eventually gave up. =) (I
figured there had to be an easier way, since this seems like a non-
unreasonable thing to want to do)
Luckily, I was just pointed to the setObjectValue: approach on StackOverflow.com
and have been trying to get that to work.
I've started building a test app to experiment with this. Here's what
I've got:
1. Create a new Document-based Cocoa App.
2. Add an IBOutlet to MyDocument called "predicateEditor"
3. Drop an NSPredicateEditor into MyDocument.xib and connect it to
File's Owner's predicateEditor outlet.
4. Add a "[predicateEditor addRow:self];" message in MyDocument's
windowControllerDidLoadNib: method
5. In the dataOfType:... method, retrieve predicateEditor's
objectValue, use NSKeyedArchiver to archive it, and return that as the
data.
6. In the readData:ofType:... method, unarchive the data as an
NSPredicate and use predicateEditor's setObjectValue: method to
restore it.
If I run this, create a predicate, and save it, then it saves nicely
to a file. If I then try to open that file, I can NSLog and see that
the predicate is getting unarchived properly, but the predicateEditor
doesn't load it. Is there anything I'm supposed to be doing besides
setObjectValue:? I haven't modified the predicateEditor at all, other
than to make the nesting "Compound".
Thanks!
Dave
On Aug 12, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Peter Ammon wrote:
...You can set an NSPredicate directly on an NSPredicateEditor via
[editor setObjectValue:somePredicate], and it will figure out which
templates to use...
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