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NSPredicateEditor Class Reference

Overview

NSPredicateEditor is a subclass of NSRuleEditor that is specialized for editing NSPredicate objects.

NSPredicateEditor provides an NSPredicate property—objectValue (inherited from NSControl)—that you can get and set directly, and that you can bind using Cocoa bindings (you typically configure a predicate editor in Interface Builder). NSPredicateEditor depends on another class, NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate, that describes the available predicates and how to display them.

Unlike NSRuleEditor, NSPredicateEditor does not depend on its delegate to populate its rows (and does not call the populating delegate methods). Instead, its rows are populated from its objectValue property (an instance of NSPredicate). NSPredicateEditor relies on instances NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate, which are responsible for mapping back and forth between the displayed view values and various predicates.

NSPredicateEditor exposes one property, rowTemplates, which is an array of NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate objects.

Tasks

Managing Row Templates

• – setRowTemplates:
• – rowTemplates

Instance Methods

rowTemplates

Returns the row templates for the receiver.

- (NSArray *)rowTemplates

Return Value

The row templates for the receiver.

Discussion

Until otherwise set, this contains a single compound NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate object.

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.5 and later.

See Also

• – setRowTemplates:

Declared In

NSPredicateEditor.h

setRowTemplates:

Sets the row templates for the receiver.

- (void)setRowTemplates:(NSArray *)rowTemplates

Parameters

rowTemplates

An array of NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate objects.

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.5 and later.

See Also

• – rowTemplates

Declared In

NSPredicateEditor.h

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