Re: Implementing a scrollable icon-table
Re: Implementing a scrollable icon-table
- Subject: Re: Implementing a scrollable icon-table
- From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:41:14 +0000
On 21 Dec 2005, at 09:29, j o a r wrote:
On 21 dec 2005, at 10.17, Dan Price wrote:
You can control the contents at runtime, but I would
need to add and remove cells, handle feedback from
selection and drag + drop and draw new images to the
cells. It just seems more work.
Agreed. NSMatrix doesn't have the same level of convenience, but it
shouldn't be more than a days work or so to bridge the gap.
Although, from personal experience, you can't quite get it to work
like a Finder view (even modulo the icons being in fixed positions),
if that's what your goal is. At least, I couldn't when I tried; the
selection behaviour in particular was different, no matter what I
tried to fix it.
It's a shame that Cocoa doesn't provide an icon view as a built-in
class, particularly as writing something that looks and works exactly
like Finder is harder than it looks; this is one of the very few
areas where programming on Windows is more convenient, since on that
platform the window class used by the Explorer *is* available to
third-party programs.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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