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POBinding an NSPopupButton to an NSDictionaryController
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copied!<p>I'm trying out some MacOS programming and having some trouble understanding how bindings work with an NSPopupButton. I'm interested in binding to an NSDictionaryController (I don't think I need an intermediate NSArrayController but if that is the best way, I'm open to it). </p> <p>I've created a controller object that has a property 'db' which has a property 'species' which is an NSMutableDictionary. The 'species' dictionary has ID's for keys and Species objects for values. Species objects have a description property. In InterfaceBuilder, I've created MyController, NSDictionaryController, and an NSPopupButton. I would like to populate the popup with Species.descriptions. When selected, I need access to the corresponding ID.</p> <p>I've setup the NSDictionaryController to bind 'Content Dictionary' to MyController with Model Key Path 'db.species'. With NSPopupButton, so far I've bound 'Content Values' to NSDictionaryController with controller key 'arrangedObjects' and Model Key Path set to 'value.description'.</p> <p>This seems to work getting the list populated. My main question is what the best way to wire up the selection is. Ideally, I would like to wire selection to the NSDictionaryController so that I can use the NSDictionaryController to access the selection. One reason for this is so that I can wire other controls to the NSDictionaryController to see the current selection. If not, should I wire to a property in MyController or something? Just looking for the best practices. I would like as much to be through the Interface Builder mechanisms so that I can easily reuse the model and controller design in another application with a different view.</p> <p><strong>Update using Brian's answer as guidance:</strong></p> <p>NSPopupButton: bind Content to NSDictionaryController->arrangedObjects->value.description</p> <p>bind Content Objects to NSDictionaryController->arrangedObjects->key</p> <p>bind Selected Index to NSDictionaryController->selectionIndex</p> <p>bind NSDictionaryController->db.species</p> <p>Everything seems to work. I can grab the object from the controller with [[[controller selectedObjects] lastObject] value]. It's in an array of selected objects with key, value pairs, I believe.</p>

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