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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble, Nate Chandler
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
556 pages
17h 47m
English
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Sorting in RaiseMan

You are now ready to add sorting to RaiseMan. When you are done, the user will be able to reorder the employees table by clicking on the table column headers. This action translates to setting the criteria by which the rows will be sorted.

When a user clicks on a table column header, the table view responds by changing its sort descriptors. Sort descriptors, represented by the NSSortDescriptor class, describe how to sort an array of objects. Each sort descriptor contains a key which is a KVC key path, whether it should be ascending (as opposed to descending), and a comparison selector, or method used to compare the two keys. Because sorting with NSSortDescriptor relies upon KVC, it can only be used with NSObject ...

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