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Re: Outline and Table back to front
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Re: Outline and Table back to front


  • Subject: Re: Outline and Table back to front
  • From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:59:54 -0500

On Jun 20, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Thomas Davie wrote:
On Jun 20, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Corbin Dunn wrote:
Not all outline views are table views, however, all table views are outline views, therefore outline view should be higher the the hierarchy.
All NSOutlineViews are in fact NSTableViews -- every NSOutlineView supports all of the NSTableView methods, but the reverse is not true, and it doesn't make sense to have a method like "collapseItem" on an NSTableView.
This is an implementation detail - I am arguing that the implementation is wrong... Logically a table view is an outline view restricted to leaf nodes only. collapseItem makes as much sense as it does for a leaf node in an outline view.


Actually, you are wrong. An outline view is just a table view that adds a notion of hierarchy to one of the columns. ;-)


Tomatoe, tomahto.

Whether you think the implementation is "right" or "wrong" is completely irrelevant to Cocoa development. The implementation is the way it is and it certainly isn't going to change now or any time in the near future.

Apple ships a header with the following contents. Therefore, this is law if you want to be an effective Cocoa programmer.

    @interface NSOutlineView : NSTableView

b.bum




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