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Table of Contents:
*entry1 - Change, or hide, the highlighting (selected row background) color in an NSTableView *entry2 - Control some aspect of formatting in a table column *entry3 - Combo box in a table column *entry4 - Simple pasteboard operation when you want to treat each selected table row as a single string *entry5 - Change any row’s color in an NSTableView
entry1 - Change, or hide, the highlighting (selected row background) color in an NSTableView:
In your table view subclass, add the following (replacing the color with whatever you want):
If you’re going to copy this manually, make note of that underscore in front of the method name.
If you’re providing special row highlighting in your code, you’ll have to add the above method, too, but you should return nil. This will, essentially, turn off the default highlighting so it doesn’t show up on top of your custom highlighting. (Tested in 10.3, Xcode 1.5)
Note that this is “undocumented goodness” and may not work (or cause your app to break) in the future.
entry2 - Control some aspect of formatting in a table column:
Before digging into the “table view method stew,” try this: Go to IB and select the table column you want formatted. (The Header Cell has to be visible for this to work. If it’s hidden, unhide it and after you’re done, you can hide it again.) In the Tool Palette’s toolbar, select the “Data” tool set. In the lower left there you’ll find “formatters” for images, text, etc. Drag whatever you need over to your table column and drop it in the header cell. A little triangle will appear in the upper right corner. Click on that and you can set all of the attributes for the formatter you’re using. (Tested in 10.3, Xcode 1.5)
entry3 - Combo box in a table column:
The trick is to realize that NSTableView uses one combo box only, it won’t record the user selection since it reuses a single UI object… so you must implement tableView:setObjectValue:forTableColumn:row:; record the user selection and return it from tableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row:.
See NSComboBoxCellExample for a more comprehensive example.
entry4 - Simple pasteboard operation when you want to treat each selected table row as a single string
I have an NSTableView subclass that handles copying selected rows to the pasteboard as a string. The code runs from the copy: method, and works fine. However, I call a method via the delegate using performSelector:withObject:withObject:, and since you can only pass objects, I have to pass an NSNumber instead of an int to indicate the row:
if ([self numberOfSelectedRows]>0) { id theDelegate = [self delegate]; SEL selector = @selector(tableView:stringForRow:); if ([theDelegate respondsToSelector:selector]) { NSMutableString *s = [NSMutableString string]; int i; for (i=0; i<[self numberOfRows]; i++) { if ([self isRowSelected:i]) { [s appendFormat:@”%@\r”, [theDelegate performSelector:selector withObject:self withObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:i]]]; } }
if ([s length]>0)
{
// my own class category method
[NSPasteboard setString:s];
}
} }
How I would change this code to use NSInvocation so that I could pass an int instead of an NSNumber. Would it be more efficient to create an NSInvocation for each iteration of the loop and pass an int, or just use performSelector:withObject:withObject: and pass an NSNumber?
For your code, you already know the selector. It’s tableView:stringForRow:. Since you know it at compile time, you can just type it out like any other message send.
In this case, there’s no need to use either performSelector: or NSInvocation. Just send the message thusly:
[theDelegate tableView:self stringForRow:i]
entry5 - Change any row’s color in an NSTableView
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