Re: Tracking the mouse in a cell in a NSTableView

FROM : Óscar Morales Vivó
DATE : Tue Aug 01 22:09:23 2006

Ah, that did the trick. I don't know how I missed that one. Probably 
because I forgot to look into the class methods :P

On Jul 31, 2006, at 18:35 , Corbin Dunn wrote:

>
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Óscar Morales Vivó wrote:
>

>> I've noticed that the default behavior when tracking the mouse in 
>> a table view is for the tracking cell to stop tracking once the 
>> mouse gets out of its bounds.

>
> This really depends on the cell. NSButtonCell, for instance, does 
> not do this. What kind of cell are you using?
>
>

>> The problem is that I haven't found any reasonable way to change 
>> that (short of subclassing NSTableView, which is something I'll 
>> eventually have to do but would rather delay as much as possible).

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> You may have to modify prefersTrackingUntilMouseUp in your cell. 
> You will not need to subclass TV for ths.
>
> -corbin
>

>>
>> Is there any good way to change that tracking behavior? (similar 
>> to the options that NSMatrix offers). If I've missed something 
>> obvious let me know. Otherwise suggestions for the less cumbersome 
>> way to do it would be welcome.
>>