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KVO and Cocoa Bindings are not the same thing. Just because Bindings use KVO does not mean both technologies are alike. KVC/KVO has many uses outside Cocoa Bind

KVO and Cocoa Bindings are not the same thing. Just because Bindings use KVO does not mean both technologies are alike. KVC/KVO has many uses outside Cocoa Bindings or UI updates. Further, obviously KVC/KVO has a performance penalty and that is exactly why you would not use it for high performance tasks. However for just about everything else it is a great tool and will minimize the amount of code you write greatly, resulting in improved maintainability.

mpweiher 13y ago
"KVO and Cocoa Bindings are not the same thing" Yes. From the Fine Article: "[..] bindings are one-way dataflow constraints, specifically with the equation limited to y = x1. More complex equations can be obtained by using NSValueTransformers. KVO is more of an implicit invocation mechanism that is used primarily to build ad-hoc dataflow constraints." Bindings: simple one way dataflow constraints. KVO: implicit invocation. Not the same thing.