search table view revisited

There is a call method for scrolling to a particular row in a table view: "scrollRowToVisible:". That is probably the key thing you are missing. You pass the call method a row number (the row you want to scroll to if that row is not already visible). You just need to remember that this is zero-based, so 0 is the first row, 1 the second etc.

There is also a call method, "indexOfObject:", (again, zero-based) for getting the index of something in a list (array), so I might well combine the two call methods. I would also select the row as well as scrolling to it with "set selected row ...". Getting the column contents to search on ... even if you haven't explicitly set up an off-screen database, you can address the data as if you had. Here is some sample code to show one way in which it could all go together ...

set theList to {"zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten"}
set searchItem to "eight"
tell application "TableView"
    set tableView to table view 1 of scroll view 1 of window 1
    append tableView with theList
    set columnContents to get content of data cell 1 of every data row of data source of tableView
    if columnContents contains searchItem then
        set theIndex to call method "indexOfObject:" of object columnContents with parameter searchItem -- zero-based
        tell tableView
            call method "scrollRowToVisible:" of object it with parameter theIndex -- zero-based
            set selected row to (theIndex + 1)
        end tell
    end if
end tell

Philip

on SearchMe(theitem, thetable)

log theitem & " this is the search item in searchme" & return & return

set MyTableView to thetable

if MyTableView = "main" then

set thecellvalue to 2

set theDataSource to data source of table view 1 of scroll view 1 of window "main"

log "Schedule is the window that was called" & return & return

else

if MyTableView = "chooseplaylist" then

set thecellvalue to 1

set theDataSource to data source of table view 1 of scroll view 1 of window "chooseplaylist"

end if

set searchcelldata to zap_the_crap("data cell " & thecellvalue & " of every data row of table view 1 of scroll view 1 of window " & MyTableView)

set columnContents to get contents of data cell thecellvalue of every data row of data source of table view 1 of scroll view 1 of window MyTableView --as list

if columnContents contains theitem then

set theIndex to call method "indexOfObject:" of object columnContents with parameter theitem -- zero-based

log theIndex & " here's theindex!" & return & return

call method "scrollRowToVisible:" of object int with parameter theIndex -- zero-based

log int & " this is INT" & return & return

set selected row to (theIndex + 1)

end if

end SearchMe

This works very nicely, for the most part. The logs show the correct data being passed along the routine, etc..

The only problem is that actually running this returns this error:

"The variable int is not defined. (-2753)"

Now, my objective-c is not all it should be. I'm working on it, honestly, but it's not all there yet.

Anyone want to offer a suggestion on how to define int?

This is one of two remaining problems to solve on a project that's been dragging on for almost a year now. Once this is solved, I can ship and pay my rent. So, I would be Oh, so greatful to solve this in the next day or so. Sushi on me if you live in the tri-state as soon as a sell a few of these.

TIA!

Joshua