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Laurie Fleming

Posted: 16 February 2002 12:38 PM

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This should be *really* obvious, but it ain’t to me.

I have a popUpButton with years from 1990 to a wee way ahead. I want to populate each row with the year description and found this was the easiest way for me to do it. But it can’t be the best. Or easiest.

// Populate the year button until two years in the future.

    for (i = 1990; i < [now yearOfCommonEra] + 4; i++)

    {

    // There should be, and probably is, a straight-forward casting method for

    // integer->char...

    [yearButton addItemWithTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", i]];

    [[yearButton lastItem] setTag:i];

    }

How change I implement the addItemWithTitle without going through the indirect stringWithFormat cast? I suppose I could slip atoi() in there, but is there an Objective-C way of going about it? I know exactly how to do it in SAS/AF Frame, but there’s no such beast under OS X.

I’m learning all the time…

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EDGar

Posted: 16 February 2002 12:31 PM

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I thought NSString had a method to do just that. no?

huh, nothing here
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSString.html

as you said, you could always atoi, then initwithCstring

[edit] does string with format do it?

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Posted: 16 February 2002 12:38 PM

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silly me, I just read you post a little more clearly… It looks like stringwithformat is the way to go. maybe someone else has a better idea?

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