I have setup a few table views in my interface, and I would like to be made aware by the notification center that a selection has changed in any of them and then act accordingly, but despite a few hours of testing and searching, I have no result. I have this called within the “applicationWillFinishLaunching” routine, and it seems like my selector routine is not being called when I select any row of any table views:
tell current application's NSWorkspace to set theWorkspace to sharedWorkspace()
set theNotificationCenter to theWorkspace's notificationCenter()
tell theNotificationCenter to addObserver_selector_name_object_(me, "tableViewSelectionChanged:", "NSTableViewSelectionDidChangeNotification", missing value)
on tableViewSelectionChanged_(sender)
log "tableViewSelectionChanged_"
log sender
log sender's |title|
end tableViewSelectionChanged_
Anyone got any ideas on why the routine is not being called? Thanks.
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You’re registering with the wrong notification center – that one is just for workspace changes. Try this:
set theNotificationCenter to current application's NSNotificationCenter's defaultCenter()
tell theNotificationCenter to addObserver_selector_name_object_(me, "tableViewSelectionChanged:", "NSTableViewSelectionDidChangeNotification", missing value)
You can also make your script the delegate of the table views and implement on TableViewSelectionDidChange_(notif), and that way not have to use a notification.
Small update: looks like I’m going to have to go with the notification center solution in the end, because the solution I found only works if the user clicks a row, not if it being cycled through with the keyboard. The “action” seems to be only relating to clicks, not keyboard actions.
I still have two questions: Is it possible to specify only one table view in particular with the object parameter? What does it need? an iboutlet? or a name?
And why is every time I change the selection, the selector gets called twice?
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You make a script a delegate for one or more tables, and you can have handlers that match he notifications. It’s simpler – no registering for notifications, and you can only make delegates for the tables you’re interested in.
You are familiar with delegates – look at the name of your main script…
So If I wanted to proceed the delegate way, I assume that I would have to create a new AS class, create a blue cube in IB and connect them, then control-drag the blue cube onto the table views I’d like to control notifications for and select delegate, then within my new class I setup a method that will be activated when the table view’s selection changes, correct?
Which method do I have to subclass? Not “NSTableViewSelectionDidChangeNotification” as it is a constant… Default center maybe? It’s the “when selection changes” part that activates the delegate that is still mystifying me.
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I think you’re making this a lot harder than it needs to be. If you have a table called table1, for instance, all that you need to do is add “table1’s setDelegate_(me)” to your applicationWillFinishLaunching method. That sets your AS to be the delegate of table1. Then you can use the methods in the NSTableViewDelegate Protocol Reference to do what you want in response to user actions. For instance, to respond to the user changing the selection in table1 you could add this method to your script:
on tableViewSelectionDidChange_(aNotification)
log aNotification
end tableViewSelectionDidChange_
In, this case, I’m just logging what happened, but you could put whatever you want into this method. You don’t need to do anything to call this method, it gets called automatically by the table view when a user changes the selection by clicking on a new place in the table.
Indeed, sounds simpler. Then could I call from another script the IBoutlet that is bound in the main one and tell it to call the tableViewSelectionDidChange handler from this second script? Something like this I imagine:
and then call from my applicationWillFinishLaunching method call this second script to set the delegates? I just want to simplify the main script as much as possible… Or maybe do a connection in IB?
Thanks for the help,
Fred
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If I’m understanding what you want to do, I don’t think you want to use setDelegate_(me), you want to use setDelegate_(otherAS) (in your main script’s applicationWillFinishLaunching method), where otherAS is a property in your main script that is connected to the blue cube that represents another applescript. If you had two tables, you could have 2 other applescripts, one to handle each table if you wanted, like so:
script TableViewsAppDelegate
property parent : class "NSObject"
property table1 : missing value
property table2 : missing value
property otherAS1 : missing value
property otherAS2 : missing value
on applicationWillFinishLaunching_(aNotification)
table1's setDelegate_(otherAS1)
table2's setDelegate_(otherAS2)
end applicationWillFinishLaunching_
end script
You would then put the various handlers, like tableViewSelectionDidChange_(aNotification), in the 2 other applescripts to handle the events.
You don’t need to use code to set a table’s delegate; just control-click on the table in Interface Builder and drag from delegate to the script you want to make the delegate.
from this I know I can call upon the notification’s object, but this <NSTableView: 0x200820f80> is evidently the reference to the object that represents the table view, but how can I distinguish them?
I’ve tried this in my delegate script to compare the object to the reference I have of it as an IBOutlet in my main script:
if (aNotification's object) = (current application's MainAppDelegate's tableView1) then log "success"
and it crashes… I know i’m close. I’ve looked at the definition for the NSTableViewSelectionDidChangeNotification thinking I could get more info out of the object property, and it says this:
Posted after an NSTableView object’s selection changes. The notification object is the table view whose selection changed. This notification does not contain a userInfo dictionary.
does this mean that the object property does not contain any more info beside this object reference?
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Works like a charm. I set up a property in my second script that is connected in IB to the main app delegate blue cube, and this worked perfectly:
if (aNotification's object) = (MainAppDelegate's tableView1) then log "success"
Also, I think I will go the code way for setting up the delegates, because the IB binding way logs a million calls before even having the interface show up. I’ll put it as the last thing in my applicationWillFinishLaunching method.
Thanks a million, I’m learning a lot in these forums. These bindings, delegates, classes… pure genius. Can’t believe how far this can go. And that we couldn’t use this before in ASS was really creating a huge limit in possibilities. i’ve done more in less than 1000 lines of code in my new ASOC version of my app than I did in more than 3000 in the old one. Genius, pure genius. i’m in love…
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Oh? Well, like you said in your previous post about control-clicking and dragging from the table view to the app delegate, that works, but while I still was logging the notification there was a lot of activity in these table views… the setDelegate_ method solved that. I didn’t want things happening when there was no need to.
I was doing the logging, not the app. But still, unwanted activity at the wrong time.
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