How do I make this code KVO compliant?

Question

I'm trying to get a grip on bindings and have set up a CPWindow with a CPTextView in xcode and bound the window and the textview to their respective outlets.

I'm getting a bit stuck however trying to make the textview display the _xmlContent. I've set the binding in xcode to "delegate" and the key path to xmlContent (also tried self.xmlContent and _xmlContent and all variations thereof that I could think of).

    @import <Foundation/Foundation.j>
    @import <AppKit/AppKit.j>

    @implementation AppController : CPObject
    {
        @outlet CPWindow    theWindow;
        @outlet CPTextView  codeView;

        CPString _xmlContent @accessors(property=xmlContent);
    }

    // ...

    @end

The message I'm getting now is:

CPUndefinedKeyException: <AppController 0x00a177> is not key value coding-compliant for the key xmlContent

How do I make my AppController key value coding compliant for the key "xmlContent"?

Answer 1

Your code looks correct. I recreated it myself and it works fine for me:

@implementation AppController : CPObject
{
    @outlet CPWindow    theWindow;

    CPString _xmlContent @accessors(property=xmlContent);
}

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(CPNotification)aNotification
{
}

- (void)awakeFromCib
{
    [theWindow setFullPlatformWindow:YES];
    [self setXmlContent:@"kitten"];

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