how to use the object property of NSNotificationcenter

Question

Could somebody please show me how to use the object property on NSNotifcationCenter. I want to be able to use it to pass an integer value to my selector method.

This is how I have set up the notification listener in my UI View. Seeing as I want an integer value to be passed I'm not sure what to replace nil with.

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(receiveEvent:) name:@"myevent" object:nil];


- (void)receiveEvent:(NSNotification *)notification {
    // handle event
    NSLog(@"got event %@", notification);
}

I dispatch the notification from another class like this. The function is passed a variable named index. It's this value that I want to somehow fire off with the notification.

-(void) disptachFunction:(int) index
{
    int pass= (int)index;

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"myevent" object:pass];
    //[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:<#(NSString *)aName#>   object:<#(id)anObject#>
}

Answer 1

The object parameter represents the sender of the notification, which is usually self.

If you wish to pass along extra information, you need to use the NSNotificationCenter method postNotificationName:object:userInfo:, which takes an arbitrary dictionary of values (that you are free to define). The contents needs to be actual NSObject instances, not an integral type such as an integer, so you need to wrap the integer values with NSNumber objects.

NSDictionary* dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:
                         [NSNumber numberWithInt:index]
                      forKey:@"index"];

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"myevent"
                                      object:self
                                      userInfo:dict];