Hi,

I’m sure this must have been answered at least once, but I have tried and failed to find any related docs.

How can I make a right click (context-click) select a row on an NSTableView as well as bring up the menu. Default behaviour is NOT to select the row under the mouse.

Thanks for any help offered,

-Peter

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I’m pretty sure you have to subclass NSTableView to do this. I’m guessing it’d look something like this:

@implementation MyTableView

• (void)rightMouseDown:(NSEvent*)inEvent { [self selectRow:[self rowAtPoint:[self convertPoint:[inEvent locationInWindow] fromView:nil]] byExtendingSelection:NO]; [super rightMouseDown:inEvent]; } @end

Hope this helps. – Bo

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I have subclassed the NSTableView as suggested, but for some reason I override rightMouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent and it never gets called. I override mouseDown:… and that overrides as would be expected. It seems that rightMouseDown is not being called at all for some reason.

Any suggestions?

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Are you using a real right mouse button, or are you control-clicking? As far as I know, OS X treats them as two separate beasts, though they perform the same action by default.

I’m doing the same thing in an application I’m working on, and I decided to try putting the selection code into - (NSMenu *)menuForEvent:(NSEvent *)event instead. This seems to work perfectly (and makes a bit more sense to me since I’m also enabling/disabling items based on the selected rows).

– Wevah

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See RightClickSelectInTableView