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user1234
user1234

Reputation: 679

Objective-C: How to get data from selected row in table?

I need to retrieve a string from data from a selected row in a table to compare it to a string.

I call

NSArray *values = [self.tableArrayController selectedObjects];

To get the objects at the selected row. However, values only has a count of objects of 1, and everything seems to be one big, long string of all my values. I cannot search through the values because I won't always know what to search for. I need a specific value (of which they are organized by columns).

I was hoping that the array would be of a certain count and I could retrieve the string based on the index of the object for the string.

How should I get all the different values (organized by columns) for a selected row?

EDIT:

I populate a NSDictionary (withmore values than that, this is just an example). The string value is the column identifier. The object is the object I'm adding that I want to appear on the table. This part below already works as I want it to:

NSDictionary *dict =[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                         object1, @"column",                      
                         object2, @"column2",
                         nil];
[self.tableArrayController addObject:dict];

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1267

Answers (1)

Michael Dautermann
Michael Dautermann

Reputation: 89509

Another way to get data from your table is to look at the "NSTableView" methods "selectedRow" & "selectedColumn".

With that information, you can get at the value you want directly via your array controller or you can use the NSTableViewDataSource method "tableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row:" to pass you back the NSString value of whatever it is that you're trying to get at.

Upvotes: 2

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