I have a little statusbar app. It saves when I close the window, it saves when I quit the app but it isn't going to save every time I edit a row in my tableview or I add something to my arraycontroller. Is there a method to call saveAction at least every "enter" hit or when I confirm an edit? A save button is not what I'm searching for. Thanks in advance.
I would simply set your view controller as the delegate for both the textfield and textview. In an iOS environment you would add the protocol UITextFieldDelegate and UITextViewDelegate to your view controller header file and implement the methods - (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField and - (void)textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView for the UITextField and UITextView respectively.
As an alternative on a UITextField (iOS), there is a delegate method named - (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField which is called whenever the 'enter' key is pressed on a UITextField.
In a Mac OSX environment you would add the appropriate protocol to your view controller header file (for NSTextView add the NSTextDelegate, for NSTextField add the NSControlTextEditingDelegate) and then implement the appropriate methods: -(void)textDidChange:(NSNotification *)notification for an NSTextView and - (BOOL)control:(NSControl *)control textShouldEndEditing:(NSText *)fieldEditor for an NSTextField.
You can do any kind of validation you need to in those methods and then do a call to [myMOC save:&error]; before you return.