I use a NSOutlineView bound to a NSTreeController.
I successfully managed to sort all columns of the view, except one!
This column displays a button that is enabled if the binaryData
field is not nil.
The binaryData
field in the model is a relationship to a MyBinary
NSManagedObject subclass which has a NSData?
field. I use this method (a relationship) as recommended to avoid loading all NSData in memory even when not necessary.
I want this column to be sortable, and, when clicked, have all enabled buttons regrouped (ascending or descending order), and all disabled buttons regrouped.
In IB, like other columns, I bound the column value to:
But when I click on the column, I have the following stack:
2019-11-09 10:31:44.713177+0100 MyApp[71910:2872832] -[MyApp.MyBinary compare:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6000021429e0
2019-11-09 10:31:44.713628+0100 MyApp[71910:2872832] [General] -[MyApp.MyBinary compare:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6000021429e0
2019-11-09 10:31:44.717803+0100 MyApp[71910:2872832] [General] (
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff36294f53 __exceptionPreprocess + 250
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff6c35a835 objc_exception_throw + 48
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3631f106 -[NSObject(NSObject) __retain_OA] + 0
3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3623b6cb ___forwarding___ + 1427
4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3623b0a8 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
5 Foundation 0x00007fff388a1a44 _NSCompareObject + 46
6 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff36206288 __CFSimpleMergeSort + 74
7 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff362061a6 CFSortIndexes + 390
8 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff36223720 CFMergeSortArray + 290
9 Foundation 0x00007fff388a179b _sortedObjectsUsingDescriptors + 592
10 Foundation 0x00007fff388a1397 -[NSArray(NSKeyValueSorting) sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:] + 317
11 AppKit 0x00007fff33666373 -[NSTreeNode sortWithSortDescriptors:recursively:] + 461
12 AppKit 0x00007fff336664be -[NSTreeNode sortWithSortDescriptors:recursively:] + 792
13 AppKit 0x00007fff33666073 -[NSTreeController setSortDescriptors:] + 304
14 Foundation 0x00007fff388e1ce3 -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forKey:] + 363
15 AppKit 0x00007fff336695bb -[NSBinder _setValue:forKeyPath:ofObject:mode:validateImmediately:raisesForNotApplicableKeys:error:] + 445
16 AppKit 0x00007fff336693aa -[NSBinder setValue:forBinding:error:] + 236
17 AppKit 0x00007fff33ab0359 -[NSOutlineViewBinder tableView:didChangeToSortDescriptors:] + 119
18 AppKit 0x00007fff337c10cc -[_NSBindingAdaptor tableView:didChangeToSortDescriptors:] + 152
19 AppKit 0x00007fff3366bba8 -[NSTableView setSortDescriptors:] + 258
20 AppKit 0x00007fff33ba44e8 -[NSTableView _changeSortDescriptorsForClickOnColumn:] + 536
21 AppKit 0x00007fff33b8a127 -[NSTableHeaderView _trackAndModifySelectionWithEvent:onColumn:stopOnReorderGesture:] + 999
22 AppKit 0x00007fff33b8d24a -[NSTableHeaderView mouseDown:] + 546
23 AppKit 0x00007fff335f25e9 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _handleMouseDownEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 4907
24 AppKit 0x00007fff33535eb0 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 2612
25 AppKit 0x00007fff3353523d -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 349
26 AppKit 0x00007fff333f945c -[NSApplication(NSEvent) sendEvent:] + 352
27 AppKit 0x00007fff333e8da7 -[NSApplication run] + 707
28 AppKit 0x00007fff333da95d NSApplicationMain + 777
29 MyApp 0x000000010002b02d main + 13
30 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff6d6bd2e5 start + 1
31 ??? 0x0000000000000003 0x0 + 3
)
How can I solve this problem? I thought of using Custom Sort Descriptors but I don't exactly know how to tell the OutlineView or the TreeController to use a specific descriptor for a specific column.
Thanks for your help!
OK, found it.
The first step was to set a custom NSSortDescriptor
on the column using NSTableColumn.sortDescriptorPrototype
.
To create the NSSortDescriptor you can use:
init(key: String?, ascending: Bool, comparator: Comparator)
or
init(key: String?, ascending: Bool, selector: Selector?)
which would give for the comparator:
column.sortDescriptorPrototype = NSSortDescriptor(key: "myBindingKeyPath", ascending: true, comparator: { (obj1, obj2) -> ComparisonResult in
// .... your logic
return .orderedSame
})
and for the selector:
Column.sortDescriptorPrototype = NSSortDescriptor(key: "myBindingKeyPath", ascending: true, selector: #selector(MyBinary.compare(_:)))
}
and the compare function in the MyBinary class to be accessed via the selector:
@objc
public func compare(_ other: PDFBinary) -> ComparisonResult {
return .orderedSame
}
The second solution solved my problem, because I was using the autosaveTableColumns
property which would cause issue with the first solution.