On Jan 3, 2015, at 12:13 , Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> These things work, and I can verify that the object graph in the model has
> changed correctly. But to see the changes reflected in my Source View, I have
> to collapse and re-expand the affected nodes in order to have them reload
> data from the model in its new state. (I’m kind of surprised that updating
> the outline isn’t automatically done as a result of successfully accepting an
> NSDragOperationMove.)
The outline view doesn’t know the semantics of the move. All you’ve done, at
the validation stage, is decide what kind of *feedback* to give to the user.
> Is it a good idea to call reload functions from
> outlineView:acceptDrop:item:childIndex:, or should I be doing something else
> to update the outline?
Something else. There are these methods that you use (in acceptDrop) to tell
the outline view the semantics of what the drop did:
moveItemAtIndex:…
insertItemsAtIndexes:…
removeItemsAtIndexes:…
By using combinations of these, you can avoid a reload. (Reloads essentially
throw away information and re-acquire it. These methods describe the changes
without loss of current state information.)
The effects of these methods are batched and deferred to a later iteration of
the run loop, and they also have the benefit of allowing the outline view to
animate the changes nicely, which a reload can’t do.
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