Binding search field and table view in cocoa

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I have a nstableview. I would like to filter the results based on the characters entered in a search bar in OSX. So how do i bind the table view and the search field in OSX not in IOS? :) Thanks.

+1 for nice question on mac osx. – Anoop Vaidya Jan 29 '13 at 05:07 — Anoop Vaidya, Jan 29 '13 at 05:07

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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I have a project that you can download and look how it works.

The steps are as :

Drag NSArrayController, set all bindings with this. Create NSSearchField.
In binding inspector, Search "Bind to ArrayController".
Set Controller Key to "filterPredicate".
Set Predicate Format to "property1 contains $value" If you want a single search field to search on multiple values(say 3) use || as : "property1 contains $value || property2 contains $value || property3 contains $value"

Also, this StackOverFlow Question.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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Not yet AKV. i couldn't download the project. There is some problem in net here. – user1999892 Jan 29 '13 at 05:58
Few steps to do, check if this helps – Anoop Vaidya Jan 29 '13 at 06:49
this is a great example. thanks a ton! one small fix: click the search field, go into bindings>search>predicate>format and replace the last salary with name. – kritzikratzi Jul 10 '15 at 15:14
@AnoopVaidya the project link is broken... could you please fix it or better put it on github? much appreciated! :) – Lookaji Oct 24 '18 at 20:49

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