Re: Uneditable NSTableView (SOLVED)

FROM : Nate Weaver
DATE : Wed Apr 23 21:44:12 2008

If that's the case, you can simply check [yourTableView 
numberOfSelectedRows] in -tableViewSelectionDidChange: and update the 
bottom view based on the result.

On Apr 23, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Ewan Delanoy wrote:
> Corbinn Dunn wrote

>>>>>          I'm not quite sure what you mean by "target" here

>>>> The "target" is the object that your selector message will be sent
>>>> to.
>>>> How will your TableView know which object responds to the selector
>>>> you
>>>> give it? It's not magic...
>>>> HTH

>>>
>>> It did help indeed, and even solved my problem! (it now works with a
>>> single click by the way, just as in Mail). I was confused because
>>> although I already knew how an action in an object could be the 
>>> target
>>> of a button or a single cell in a table view,  I hadn't yet 
>>> understood
>>> that it could be the target of a table view "as a whole", with the
>>> action triggered by any of the cells in it. Many thanks!

>>
>> Based on your description of the problem, you probably want to update
>> your lower pane via:
>>
>> - (void)tableViewSelectionDidChange:(NSNotification *)notification;
>>
>> .corbin
>>

>
>  That wouldn't be very useful for what I do because I also want
> the Mail-like feature of multiple selection (and possible erasing of
> the selected items). Generally, I think using delegate methods like
> this becomes awkward when there are many ways for the selection to 
> change.
>
>                                                              Ewan