I hope that I will be able to accurately frame this question.
I have a table whose columns are bound to an arrayController. the data in the table can be edited by calling up an inspector panel which is also bound to the arrayController. so changing a value in the inspector changes the value in the table. Multiple items may be selected in the table and when the inspector is brought up all of the selected items may be edited "en masse". I recently changed all of the textFields in my inspector to auto-completing comboBoxes. That where my problem comes in.
when the user brings up the inspector to edit multiple items, If the user clicks inside a comboBox the text turns from "Multiple Values" into an empty field ready for input. So far so good. Say the user decides not to edit this field after all and tabs to another different field. Bam. All values from all selected objects bound to that comboBox are now clobbered. as in they all have no value. No editing took place, the user just clicked into the field. This only happens with comboBoxes. Under the same situation but with a textField, everything works as expected. If a user clicks into a textField, the text "Multiple Values" goes away and the field is ready to be edited. If the user leves the field without editing, the "Multiple Values" placeholder comes back and all selected objects in the table do not have their values clobbered.
Did that make sense to you all?
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