Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] KVC to-many controller?

[Quintin <exp...@de...>]

Great! Thanks. Will give a try and let you know if there's any hassles.

Quintin


> Cocoa checks to see if the methods really are defined in the actual
>  Objective C class. RubyCocoa doesn't actually define the methods - it
>  relies on forwardInvocation: (a bit like method_missing) to do its
>  work. Hence the problem you're seeing.
>
>  I wrote a helper method a while back called 'kvc_array_accessor',
>  which you can see the source of in osx/oc_import.rb.
>
>  class Foo < OSX::NSObject
>     def initialize
>       @things = []
>     end
>     kvc_array_accessor :things
>  end
>
>  That should provide access to the ruby array @things. If you want to
>  provide access in a different way, just use the existing
>  implementations of 'countOfThings' etc that you have *after* calling
>  kvc_array_accessor. That should overwrite the methods that are set up
>  for you in there.
>
>  I haven't tested this recently, and the above code hasn't been tested
>  either. Hopefully it'll give you enough to get going.
>
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