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Re: View-based NSTableView question
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Re: View-based NSTableView question


  • Subject: Re: View-based NSTableView question
  • From: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:11:08 -0700

On Mac OS X, look for NSTableViewDelegate tableView:heightOfRow:. The width is set through the NSTableColumn which has an entire set of methods to set the minimum width, the width and the maximum width.

-Laurent.
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On Jul 11, 2012, at 15:06, TJ <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I'm trying to replace my old cell-based NSTableView system with the new 10.7+ view-based one without using Xcode's Interface Builder for the table view and column creation.
> What I am doing now is creating an NSTableCellView inside NSTableView's delegate method [-NSTableView tableView:viewForTableColumn:row:]:
>
> - (NSView *)tableView:(NSOutlineView *)aTableView viewForTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)tableColumn row:(NSInteger)row
> {
> 	NSString *identifier = [tableColumn identifier];
> 	NSString *stringValue = [self tableView:aTableView objectValueForTableColumn:tableColumn row:row];
> 	NSTableCellView *cellView = [aTableView makeViewWithIdentifier:identifier owner:self];
> 	if (cellView == nil)
> 	{
> 		// Create cell view
> 		cellView = [[[NSTableCellView alloc] initWithFrame:[cellView frame]] autorelease];
> 		cellView.identifier = identifier;
> 		// Create text field
> 		NSTextField *textField = [[[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:[cellView frame]] autorelease];
> 		[textField setIdentifier:identifier];
> 		[textField setBordered:NO];
> 		[textField setDrawsBackground:NO];
> 		[textField setStringValue: stringValue];
> 		cellView.textField = textField;
> 		[cellView addSubview:textField];
> 		return cellView:
> 	}
>
> 	[cellView.textField stringValue];
> 	return cellView;
> }
>
> The problem here is that I don't have any idea where and how to get and set the frame of the cell. As you can see during the creation of NSTableCellView I'm basically using an NSZeroRect because [cellView frame] is nil. I subclassed NSTableCellView and added a red color for the background in order to see if the NSZeroRect gets automatically updated to the current cell rect - it does work. But it just doesn't make sense to create a subview of NSTableCellView with a zero-frame... is there a method inside NSTableCellView I should subclass and position the NSTextField? Or is it common to get the frame inside -viewForTableColumn and adjusting the text field there? What's the way Apple had in mind concerning programmatically creating a view-based NSTableView? I couldn't find a lot of information on this, the demo video on developer.apple.com directly uses an NSTextField as the return cell-view but my view needs to be more complex than that. I am pretty sure I just missed something very important here. ;-) And my second question is - is it possible to create a cell view which is bigger than one row, thus it's overlaying other rows (I'm not customizing my table view to death, I have a good reason for cell views being positioned over several rows).


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