Re: Properly supporting 'delete' key presses in NSTableView
Re: Properly supporting 'delete' key presses in NSTableView
- Subject: Re: Properly supporting 'delete' key presses in NSTableView
- From: "Dalzhim Dalzhim" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:49:53 -0400
This following episode of Late Night Cocoa gives a solution to this precise
problem of implementing the delete functionality on TableViews and
OutlineViews without having to subclass it.
http://www.mac-developer-network.com/podcasts/latenightcocoa/episode9/index.html
Hope it helps :)
-Dalzhim
2008/10/20 Sean McBride <email@hidden>
> On 10/20/08 2:27 PM, Corbin Dunn said:
>
> >> Overriding deleteBackward: (from NSResponder) doesn't seem to work.
> >> For
> >> some reason, it is never called.
> >
> >For various reasons, NSTableView doesn't implement -
> >interpretKeyEvents:, that's why it isn't called.
>
> Thanks for your reply Corbin!
>
> I assume NSOutlineView is the same?
>
> >This will work well, and is the only good way to implement it.
> >Ideally, you would only want to do this if there isn't an active "type
> >select" going on, but there is no API to tell if that is happening or
> >not. (As usual, feel free to log requests for that). Theoretically,
> >backspacing while type selecting could undo the last character; in
> >practice, that is a dangerous thing to do, since you might
> >accidentally delete something you didn't intend to.
>
> A few quickie followups, if I may:
>
> - so will this actually work with custom keybindings? Or is there just
> no good way to support that?
> - did I miss a constant for the backward delete char (an analogue to
> NSDeleteCharacter)? I'm using 0xf728, discovered via gdb. :(
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
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