On Jan 3, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Rick Mann wrote: > In the example for NSCollectionView, they show binding text labels to the > collection view item's represented object's properties. This is fine and > makes sense. > > But my item view contains a custom view that needs access to the represented > object in the NSCollectionViewItem. Since my custom view can't be bound > within IB, I need to bind it programmatically. But I can't find the right > place to do this. I tried doing it in awakeFromNib, with an outlet in my > custom view to the NSCollectionViewItem, but it's sometimes nil (Currently I > have data for two items, and the first time awakeFromNib is called, the item > outlet is set, and the second time, it's not; not sure why). > > When does IB actually set the bindings specified in the nib? When can I add > bind: calls and have access to both my view instance and the > NSCollectionViewItem?
What you could do is sub-class the NSCollectionViewItem your collection view is
using (you will set the NSCollectionViewItem's class in IB) and implement
-setRepresentedObject: which is called the at the time it is created and
assigned its corresponding object.
There you can access the view and represented object and do whatever you like
with it.
- (void)setRepresentedObject:(id)object
{
[super setRepresentedObject:object];
MyView *myView = (MyView *)[self view];
// bind view properties to object here
}
An alternative would be sub-classing the NSCollectionView and implementing
-newItemForRepresentedObject: where you too can get access to the ItemView and
view for the object.
Regards
Markus
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