Cocoa: ABPeoplePickerView - How can I trigger a Method upon single clicking a person? - cocoa

Question

I've looked everywhere, and hope that perhaps someone can point me in the right direction.
I just want to run a method each time the user selects a different record.
The bigger picture (in case there is an alternate way) is that when the user selects the record (single click) the persons phone numbers are to be put into a segmented control.
I've tried:
To connect an action to a button, I usually open the assistant editor, and right-click drag to the .h file. But when I'm doing it with this abpeoplepickerview I only get an Outlet connection type?

Answer 1

the people picker is a . 'compound view' that actually consits of a tableview, 2 buttons and a searchfield (IIRC)
answer:
you're out of luck and this component isnt suitable for you BUT of course you do some hacking:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
//you get the internal tableview
id views = [self findSubviewsOfKind:NSClassFromString(#"ABPeoplePickerTableView") withTag:NSNotFound inView:sef.peoplePickerView];
id view = [views count] ? [views objectAtIndex:0] : nil;
//subscribe to the notification
if([view respondsToSelector:#selector(selectedRow)]) {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserverForName:NSTableViewSelectionDidChangeNotification object:view queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] usingBlock:^(NSNotification *note) {
[self peoplePickerSelectedRecordChanged:self.peoplePickerView];
}];
}
}
- (NSArray *)findSubviewsOfKind:(Class)kind withTag:(NSInteger)tag inView:(NSView*)v {
NSMutableArray *array = [NSMutableArray array];
if(kind==nil || [v isKindOfClass:kind]) {
if(tag==NSNotFound || v.tag==tag) {
[array addObject:v];
}
}
for (id subview in v.subviews) {
NSArray *vChild = [self findSubviewsOfKind:kind withTag:tag inView:subview];
[array addObjectsFromArray:vChild];
}
return array;
}
- (IBAction)peoplePickerSelectedRecordChanged:(id)sender {
NSLog(#"%#", [sender selectedRecords]);
}

Answer 2

ABPeoplePickerView gives notifications for exactly what you need. Look near the end of the class reference.
#implementation someController
#synthesize picker; //your ABPeoplePickerView
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
// or some other method that gets called early on
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(notificate:)
name:ABPeoplePickerNameSelectionDidChangeNotification
object:picker];
}
- (void) notificate: (NSNotification*) notification {
ABPerson *person = picker.selectedRecords.firstObject;
NSLog(#"NOTIFIED %#"), person.name);
// name is a property of ABPerson I added in a category
// do what you will
}
Don't forget to remove the observer if you dismiss the window.