On May 7, 2008, at 1:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had independently experimented with a similar hack (adding row views as subviews of the Table) and was about to flesh it out until I came across your pre-baked example. Before I dive too deeply into using it, do you see any problem in using it over the custom cell subclass method? I need to support 10.4 and later so alas NSCollectionView is a no-go.
NSCollectionView is not always a good replacement for NSTableView in any case, it's more like a NSMatrix than a NSTableView - In that it doesn't have a notion of columns.
The problems are what you could expect: You have to write a lot of code yourself, and you're re-purposing the NSTableView in a way that's very clearly different from its intended use - Something that's typically difficult to maintain.
The drawback of using custom cell subclasses is that some things are difficult to re-create in a cell, as I noted in that article - Otherwise they're of typically to be preferred.
I assume that you have real-world code running in real software that uses SubviewTableViewCell. Have you had any issues with it that make it risky?
I have personally never used this code in production. A former colleague of mine picked up the code and used it, but I was never involved in that effort so I don't know how well it worked out for him. I also don't work for that company any more, so I don't know if they still use it or not.
I think that it can be made to work, but you need to keep in mind that it is sample code, not a fully fleshed out component. You should expect there to be things that you have to fix, and complement. A thing that comes to mind is tab focus key chain management.
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