Hour 10. Working with Tables and Collections

What you’ll learn in this hour:

• Working with Bindings and Collections

• Using Table Views

• Using Collection Views

• Using the Outline View

In the previous hour you got your first real taste of building a data-bound Cocoa application for Mac OS X Lion. In this hour, we’re going to build on those data-binding skills and expand your abilities to work with collections of data.

Being able to bind a single text field to a property of an object is incredibly useful, but many applications also need to be able to work with lists of objects: customers, stock quotes, onscreen monsters in games, and much more.

In this hour you’ll see some of the different types of controllers designed to facilitate collection ...

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