[Biococoa-dev] [OT]: Cocoa Bindings

[Koen van der Drift]

Hi,

Anyone want to help me with using Cocoa Bindings (it's bio-related)?   
I've looked at the docs, and examples, and kinda understand the  
concept, but the implementation is still not working :(

Here's what I am trying to do. I have a panel from which the user can  
load a sequence from a database (NCBI, etc). I created a plist that  
contains the URL's for the databases, and the plist is loaded into an  
NSDictionary (databases). The keys of the dict hold the names of the  
databases, the values the URL's. So far, so good.

The panel has an NSPopupButton that has the keys of the databases as  
it's titles, and a NSTextField where the user types in the accession  
number. When the user clicks 'Load', the correct URL is constructed  
and the sequence is retrieved using NSURLRequest. This also works fine.

The problem I am having is with the bindings that connect the  
databases to the titles of the popup. I have added an  
NSArrayController ("Databases") to my nib and set the 'contentArray'  
to databases.allKeys.  For the NSPopupButton I have three bindings:

content = arrangedObjects (Databases)
contentValues = arrangedObjects.titles (Databases)
selectedObject = database (File Owner)

where 'database' is an NSString representing the current selected  
database, and FileOwner is the DatabaseWindowController.

The panel loads fine, and the popup shows the value of the current  
database. Even fetching a sequence works. So I am really close to get  
this thing to work. The only problem I have is, I cannot click the  
popup to change the database.  Anyone has a clue how I can fix that?

If it is working I have no problems with adding the code to one of  
the BioCocoa examples :)

cheers,

- Koen.