Re: NSTableView apparently doesn't respect allowsEmptySelection:NO anymore on Leopard

FROM : Stéphane Sudre
DATE : Sat Nov 24 14:29:46 2007

On samedi, novembre 24, 2007, at 10:47  AM, Wdyp wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Has anyone else noticed that since Leopard NSTableView doesn’t respect
> allowsEmptySelection:NO anymore?
>
> Whether set in IB or programmatically, and setting the
> NSArrayController avoidEmptySelection bit doesn’t help.
>
> This happens in a project that is still working perfectly on Leopard
> whenever built on Tiger.
>
> My table view gets its content with a filterPerdicate binding that
> returns no object and looses selection, when the predicate changes and
> populates the table with some objects again, empty selection is
> allowed, no object gets selected, forcing the user to click on an item
> to select it.
>
> Why is my project behaving differently from on Tiger?


Honestly, it might not be such as bad move. Because in Tiger and
earlier version, the behavior for this was quite buggy.

In many cases, the tableView:selectionDidChange: delegate callback was
not sent and you had to call it yourself.