Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 8

FROM : Bertil Holmberg
DATE : Thu Jan 03 22:20:29 2008

> NSTableHeaderCells behave a bit differently than other cells.
> Normally -[NSCell highlight:withFrame:inView:] just sets the
> isHighlighted flag (and probably marks the view as needing display).
> NSTableHeaderCell, on the other hand, performs the drawing
> immediately.  So -drawWithFrame:inView: is used to draw an unselected
> table header cell, and -highlight:withFrame:inView: is used to draw a
> selected table header cell.


I think this goes for other cells too. I had to use these two methods 
in the drawRect method when writing a custom ListView control where I 
used a TextFieldCell subclass.

Bertil