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Copy and Paste

Most applications support copy and paste. Copy and paste of managed objects is broadly similar to that of other objects, except that you need to be careful about how much of the object graph you copy.

The focus of this chapter is on how to copy managed objects, not how to provide an architecture for copy and paste. In this example, therefore, a simplistic approach is taken—the document object implements cut:, copy:, and paste:, and only supports copying of employees selected in the table view. There are many variants that could be implemented, this example illustrates just one approach. Moreover, basic Cocoa techniques such as archiving, key-value coding, and creating and setting outlets in a nib file, are not explained in detail.

Contents:

Custom Employee Logic
Copy
Paste
Cut

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