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Mastering macOS Programming

You're reading from   Mastering macOS Programming Hands-on guide to macOS Sierra Application Development

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461698
Length 626 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Grimshaw Stuart Grimshaw
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello macOS 2. Basic Swift FREE CHAPTER 3. Checking Out the Power of Xcode 4. MVC and Other Design Patterns 5. Advanced Swift 6. Cocoa Frameworks - The Backbone of Your Apps 7. Creating Views Programmatically 8. Strings and Text 9. Getting More from Interface Builder 10. Drawing on the Strength of Core Graphics 11. Core Animation 12. Handling Errors Gracefully 13. Persistent Storage 14. The Benefits of Core Data 15. Connect to the World - Networking 16. Concurrency and Asynchronous Programming 17. Understanding Xcodes Debugging Tools 18. LLDB and the Command Line 19. Deploying Third - Party Code 20. Wrapping It Up

Observing without bindings


We haven't yet quite caught up with the table we built in the previous chapter using Interface Builder.

At the moment, we are manually triggering the table view's reloadData method. If we were to continue with that approach, we would need to ensure that we triggered the reload every time something in the data changed that needed to be reflected in the table view.

Our previous version used bindings in Interface Builder to do this automatically, and we are able to reproduce this functionality through the use of the key-value observing mechanism, which we also saw in the last chapter.

Adding KVO to the View Controller

The first step is to add two properties to the ViewController class:

  class ViewController: NSViewController 
{ 
  var tableView: NSTableView! 
  var infoLabel:NSTextField! 
  var peopleArrayWrapper = PeopleArrayWrapper(content: []) 

  let kContentKeyPath = "content"
  private var myContext = 0

... 

We need these to add the ViewController class as an observer...

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