Thanks Howard and Rob. I will try both approaches and see what works best.

But, it makes me wonder how Xcode is able to set the tag of NSCells?

-Carl


> On Mar 16, 2019, at 6:10 PM, Howard Moon <how...@antarestech.com> wrote:
> 
> Either use NSActionCell, or derive your own class from NSCell and implement 
> it.


> On Mar 16, 2019, at 6:08 PM, Rob Petrovec <petr...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> This is expected and documented behavior.  From 
> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nscell/1532348-tag?language=objc
> 
> Setting the value of this property raises with 
> NSInternalInconsistencyException. Subclasses are expected to override this 
> property if they support tags
> 
> If you want to use tags, you should subclass NSImageCell and implement -tag & 
> -setTag: to return your own ivar.  Hope that helps.
> 
> —Rob
> 
> 
>> On Mar 16, 2019, at 7:03 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> macOS 10.12, ObjC
>> 
>> Is it not possible to set the tag of an NSImageCell at runtime? 
>> 
>> At runtime when I do "myCell.tag = val;" I get a warning:  
>>   Stub implementation of -setTag by NSCell does nothing.
>> 
>> I have an array of 48 NSImageCells. I can't hard-code them in Xcode because 
>> don't know the tag values until runtime.
>> How can I accomplish this? 
>> 
>> -Carl
>> 

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