http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/03/03/cocoa-bindings-are-awesome-yet-fraught-with-peril-for-the-inexperienced/ notes about this and that Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:01:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/03/03/cocoa-bindings-are-awesome-yet-fraught-with-peril-for-the-inexperienced/#comment-388 frank Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:43:50 +0000 http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/03/03/cocoa-bindings-are-awesome-yet-fraught-with-peril-for-the-inexperienced/#comment-388 Another way to work around the initial value problem is to bind the UI element to the user defaults instead of to an ivar. Then, where you previously refereced the variable, use a method that fetches it from the standard user defaults. I got this usage pattern from <a href="http://www.borkware.com/products/thumbborker/" rel="nofollow">Thumb Borker</a>, a thumbnail generation application that I probably would have started from if I'd found it a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad I did all that stuff myself because I learned a lot, but also glad for the examples of other and better ways of handling things I got from this app. Another way to work around the initial value problem is to bind the UI element to the user defaults instead of to an ivar. Then, where you previously refereced the variable, use a method that fetches it from the standard user defaults. I got this usage pattern from Thumb Borker, a thumbnail generation application that I probably would have started from if I’d found it a couple of weeks ago. I’m glad I did all that stuff myself because I learned a lot, but also glad for the examples of other and better ways of handling things I got from this app.

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