complex views in a tableview
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Hi all,
I'm looking to put some "complex" content into a tableview, specifically
a few controls not directly supported by IB.
I've discovered joar's great "Subview-TableView" example <http://
www.joar.com/code/> and it seems to be the best approach, but I wanted
to check with others because it's 4 years old. I'm targeting 10.5.2 or later.
Thanks,
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Sean McBride, B. Eng <sean...>
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada -
On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Sean McBride wrote:> I've discovered joar's great "Subview-TableView" example <http://
> www.joar.com/code/> and it seems to be the best approach, but I wanted
> to check with others because it's 4 years old. I'm targeting 10.5.2
> or later.
Thanks!
On 10.5 and later I would recommend NSCollectionView, or alternatively
NSRuleEditor/NSPredicateEditor, depending on what you're trying to
solve. My SubViewTableView was always a hack looking for a proper
solution - And with 10.5 we have that.
Cheers,
j o a r -
On 2/27/08 10:09 PM, j o a r said:> On 10.5 and later I would recommend NSCollectionView, or alternatively
> NSRuleEditor/NSPredicateEditor, depending on what you're trying to
> solve. My SubViewTableView was always a hack looking for a proper
> solution - And with 10.5 we have that.
I haven't used NSCollectionView but I have read about it. It seems to
be geared towards grids more than lists. I'm looking to have a table
with 2 resizable columns: the first a simple string, the second my
'complex view'. I'm not sure I could really do that with a collection
view. If it were two columns, would it still do selection in terms of rows?
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Sean McBride, B. Eng <sean...>
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada -
On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Sean McBride wrote:> I haven't used NSCollectionView but I have read about it. It seems to
> be geared towards grids more than lists. I'm looking to have a table
> with 2 resizable columns: the first a simple string, the second my
> 'complex view'. I'm not sure I could really do that with a collection
> view. If it were two columns, would it still do selection in terms
> of rows?
No, it wouldn't. So, I guess it comes down to this: There is no
control provided by Apple that does exactly what you want, so you
would either have to build something from scratch yourself, or attempt
to modify / tweak / hack one of the existing controls. You can hack
the NSTableView to sort of work that way, like I showed with my
SubViewTableView example, or you might be able to hack the
NSCollectionView to sort of work that way.
Good luck!
j o a r -
On 2/28/08 7:15 PM, j o a r said:>> I haven't used NSCollectionView but I have read about it. It seems to
>> be geared towards grids more than lists. I'm looking to have a table
>> with 2 resizable columns: the first a simple string, the second my
>> 'complex view'. I'm not sure I could really do that with a collection
>> view. If it were two columns, would it still do selection in terms
>> of rows?
>
> No, it wouldn't. So, I guess it comes down to this: There is no
> control provided by Apple that does exactly what you want, so you
> would either have to build something from scratch yourself, or attempt
> to modify / tweak / hack one of the existing controls. You can hack
That's what I figured, but wanted to check here first...> the NSTableView to sort of work that way, like I showed with my
> SubViewTableView example, or you might be able to hack the
> NSCollectionView to sort of work that way.
I guess your example is still the best starting point then.
Thanks!
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Sean McBride, B. Eng <sean...>
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
