Re: Custom View Table Views

FROM : Mike Abdullah
DATE : Tue Jul 25 21:35:08 2006

The biggest problem I've found is how NSCell works.  The table view 
only uses one NSCell to do its drawing.  Rather than having a cell 
for each row of the table, it has a single cell that is copied and 
released as appropriate.

Obviously, what you want to do instead is have an instance of your 
cell for each row of the table.  If you're using 10.4 only, a good 
workaround may be to use the cellForRow: method.

Mike

On 24 Jul 2006, at 8:57PM, Thom McGrath wrote:

> Can't find any useful information elsewhere (apple docs, list 
> archives, google, examples), so here I go again.
>
> I'm trying to use a custom view cell in my NSTableView, similar to 
> Backup.app where I have lots of data in a single cell with 
> different styles and whatnot.
>
> I've been able to figure out that I'll need an NSCell, and I've 
> informed the NSTableView to use this NSCell subclass for this 
> column. Since I do not need interaction, It's an NSCell rather than 
> an NSActionCell. Poking around inside Backup.app has been 
> fruitless. I've also successfully modified the data contained 
> within the NSCell. My issue comes in when I need to draw the view. 
> How do I attach an NSView to it to do the drawing?
>
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> Thom McGrath
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