Re: NSTableView -editColumn:row:withEvent:select: question

FROM : Corbin Dunn
DATE : Mon Apr 21 19:14:15 2008

On Apr 18, 2008, at 3:37 PM, John Stiles wrote:
>>
>> Ben Lachman wrote:
>> > Well, you should be able to just override the drawing code, since 
>> > thats really your problem.  Going directly against the docs, 
>> while it > may work fine now, is playing with fire in my opinion.
>> Yeah… that's why I posted :) I was hoping to get a "oh yeah, that 
>> only applies if [...], file a radar on the docs" or something.
>>

> I decided that, no matter what, the docs are definitely not right, 
> because they claim that an exception will be thrown even though that 
> clearly does not happen. So I filed a radar; we'll see if anything 
> comes back.
>
> rdar://5875017  [Docs] -editColumn:row:withEvent:select: needs 
> clarification


The docs are wrong. The row doesn't have to be selected before you 
call editColumn:. The row has to be selected before NSTableView will 
call editColumn:. If you are calling it yourself at the appropriate 
time, then that is a-okay.

In effect, another way to get what you want is to override selection 
drawing and to not draw selection. So, tableview still has a selected 
row, but it just doesn't show up selected.

corbin