This may be off-topic. If it is direct me to the correct list.
I need to build an app that utilizes a basically standard-usability worksheet/spreadsheet that holds user-provided integer and/or floating point data (by user entry and/or files, ascii and/or binary). I wanted to write it all in Cocoa. I thought that NEXT, and then OSX, were firmly established and matured frameworks. I planned on using NSTableView.
Then I read a MacTech article on NSTableView (MacTech - v.18-no.9, Sept.2002) and my impression from that article is that NSTableView is NOT applicable for "cell-based display and selection like you would find in a spreadsheet." [MacTech, v.18, no.9, page 8, column 1, Introduction, paragraph 2, line 8] The article then said it would be wise to roll your own classes if you want to use Cocoa.
I also looked at a Cocoa-framework open project called rrspreadsheet, but the last work on it was done a few years ago and my compilation of it in Panther didn't work too well.
Java, a much younger language, has the Table/JTable classes and a simple example of a spreadsheet. A number of websites show simple pure-Java examples of JTables.
Has anybody been able to use JTable in a Cocoa app for spreadsheet-like work? Is it possible? Can you drag-and-drop text between the desktop and/or Cocoa objects and a JTable object?
Is there a better alternative than JTable or NSTableView? What do people on this list use?
Thanks in advance for any discussion.
Steve Christon <email@hidden>
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