[ANN] KSOutlineView Framework/Interface Builder Plugin
[ANN] KSOutlineView Framework/Interface Builder Plugin
- Subject: [ANN] KSOutlineView Framework/Interface Builder Plugin
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:15:17 -0400
Hi everybody,
In the course of developing the application I'm working on, I got
frustrated with having to create dummy data sources for my static
source list outline views. They result in quite a bit of code that
can be a mess to alter when you want to later add an item to the
source list, they make localization difficult, and illogically put
static interface-related data in code.
Combine this with the other annoying source list nits (overriding
NSOutlineView just to implement -frameOfOutlineCellAtRow:, for
example, when it should be a delegate method) and I decided to fight
back with a framework and Interface Builder plugin I'm calling
KSOutlineView.
Right now it contains two classes: KSStaticTreeController, which when
used in IB presents an interface for editing a static tree of data,
and KSOutlineView, which doesn't do all that much differently from
NSOutlineView. Right now the best immediate benefit is that binding a
plain-vanilla NSOutlineView to a KSStaticTreeController results in a
fully-usable outline view in the simulator. Ideally, I'd like
KSOutlineView to present an interface for editing items directly in
design mode and a mechanism for pulling data from multiple
NSTreeControllers, so that you may for example have a static overall
source list structure with certain subtrees fed by bindings.
There are also a few issues, not the least of which is that Interface
Builder doesn't recognize changes to a KSStaticTreeController's
content, and thus does not mark the document as dirty. This code is
very untested, since I wrote it today.
If you'd like to take a gander at it, and maybe help me improve it,
check it out at http://ksoutlineview.googlecode.com .
Thanks!
--Kyle Sluder
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