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    <p>I'm writing a game using cocos2d-iphone and our stages are defined in .plist files. However, the files are growing large - so I've developed an editor that adds some structure to the process and breaks most of the plist down into fixed fields. However, some elements still require plist editor type functionality, so I have implemented an NSOutlineView on the panels that show 'other parameters'. I am attempting to duplicate the functionality from XCode's 'Property List Editor'.</p> <p>I've implemented the following system; <a href="http://www.stupendous.net/archives/2009/01/11/nsoutlineview-example/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stupendous.net/archives/2009/01/11/nsoutlineview-example/</a></p> <p>This is very close to what I need, but there is a problem that I've spent most of today attempting to solve. Values for the key column are calculated 'backwards' from the selected item by finding the parent dictionary and using;</p> <pre><code>return [[parentObject allKeysForObject:item] objectAtIndex:0]; </code></pre> <p>However, when there are multiple items with the same value within a given dictionary in the tree, this statement always returns the first item that has that value (it appears to compare the strings using isEqualToString: or hash values). This leads to the key column showing 'item1, item1, item1' instead of item1, item2, item3 (where items 1-3 all have value ''). I next tried;</p> <pre><code>-(NSString*)keyFromDictionary:(NSDictionary*)dict forItem:(id)item { for( uint i = 0; i &lt; [[dict allKeys] count]; i++ ) { id object = [dict objectForKey:[[dict allKeys] objectAtIndex:i]]; if ( &amp;object == &amp;item ) { return [[dict allKeys] objectAtIndex:i]; } } return nil; } </code></pre> <p>But this always returns <strong>nil</strong>. I was hoping that somebody with a bit more experience with NSOutlineView might be able to provide a better solution. While this problem only appears once in the linked example, I've had to use this a number of times when deleting items from dictionaries for instance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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