How exactly does NSInvocation
work? Is there a good introduction?
I’m specifically having issues understanding how the following code (from Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition) works, but then also be able to apply the concepts independently of the tutorial sample. The code:
- (void)insertObject:(Person *)p inEmployeesAtIndex:(int)index
{
NSLog(@"adding %@ to %@", p, employees);
// Add inverse of this operation to undo stack
NSUndoManager *undo = [self undoManager];
[[undo prepareWithInvocationTarget:self] removeObjectFromEmployeesAtIndex:index];
if (![undo isUndoing])
[undo setActionName:@"Insert Person"];
// Finally, add person to the array
[employees insertObject:p atIndex:index];
}
- (void)removeObjectFromEmployeesAtIndex:(int)index
{
Person *p = [employees objectAtIndex:index];
NSLog(@"removing %@ from %@", p, employees);
// Add inverse of this operation to undo stack
NSUndoManager *undo = [self undoManager];
[[undo prepareWithInvocationTarget:self] insertObject:p
inEmployeesAtIndex:index];
if (![undo isUndoing])
[undo setActionName:@"Delete Person"];
// Finally, remove person from array
[employees removeObjectAtIndex:index];
}
I get what it’s trying to do. (BTW, employees
is an NSArray
of a custom Person
class.)
Being a .NET guy, I try to associate unfamiliar Obj-C and Cocoa concepts to roughly analogous .NET concepts. Is this similar to .NET’s delegate concept, but untyped?
This isn’t 100% clear from the book, so I’m looking for something supplemental from real Cocoa/Obj-C experts, again with the goal that I understand the fundamental concept beneath the simple(-ish) example. I'm really looking to be able to independently apply the knowledge -- up until chapter 9, I was having no difficulty doing that. But now ...
Thanks in advance!