NSPredicateEditor in Xcode 4

Question

Bit of an issue with Xcode 4\'s predicate editor controls - I think I\'m doing everything right, and it really seems like the IDE itself is busted.

I\'m having this i

Answer 1

I know this isn't the answer you want to hear, but I highly recommend setting up the the predicate editor programmatically. Setting it up in IB, in my experience, isn't very intuitive. At least in code you can explicitly see what's going on.

NSArray *keyPaths = @[[NSExpression expressionForKeyPath:@"title"],
                      [NSExpression expressionForKeyPath:@"writer"]];
NSArray *operators = @[@(NSEqualToPredicateOperatorType),
                       @(NSNotEqualToPredicateOperatorType),
                       @(NSBeginsWithPredicateOperatorType),
                       @(NSEndsWithPredicateOperatorType),
                       @(NSContainsPredicateOperatorType)];

NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate *template = [[NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate alloc] initWithLeftExpressions:keyPaths
                                                                          rightExpressionAttributeType:NSStringAttributeType
                                                                                              modifier:NSDirectPredicateModifier 
                                                                                             operators:operators 
                                                                                               options:(NSCaseInsensitivePredicateOption | NSDiacriticInsensitivePredicateOption)];

NSArray *compoundTypes = @[@(NSNotPredicateType),
                           @(NSAndPredicateType),
                           @(NSOrPredicateType)];
NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate *compound = [[NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate alloc] initWithCompoundTypes:compoundTypes];

[myPredicateEditor setRowTemplates:@[template, compound]];