How to create NSCollectionView programmatically from scratch?

Question

NSCollectionView remains one of the most mysterious parts of the Cocoa API that I\'ve ever seen. Documentation is poor and there are many moving parts, many of

Answer 1

To answer brigadir's question on how to bind to a mutable array.

zero'th - make titles an NSMutableArray

first - bind the array to your items

[cv bind:NSContentBinding 
    toObject:self 
    withKeyPath:@"titles" 
    options:NULL];

Second - when altering titles, make sure to modify the proxy.

e.g.

NSMutableArray *kvcTitles = [self mutableArrayValueForKey:@"titles"];
[kvcTitles removeLastObject];