I'm working on a fairly simple application which will display a list of n items. Right now, I'm displaying the items in an NSTableView, but I would like to do something with a bit more pizazz.
Instead of a multi-column table, I want to make a single column list where each entry in the list custom draws the information and controls it needs (say a couple of labels, a checkbox, a small image, and a text field for each item). Twitteriffic's interface is a pretty good example of the sort of thing I'm going for. In a different world, I would create a custom NSView subclass and add NSTextField and NSButton views as subviews to my subclass; and then ask the table view to use my NSView subclass to draw each row. Unfortunately, NSTableView doesn't display NSView objects: it displays NSCell objects. I've never worked with NSCell before so I'm sort of shooting in the dark. NSCell doesn't seem to support subcells like NSView supports subviews. Would I have to custom draw all of the UI elements I need and hand-code the click responses and editing and such? (My other idea would be to write a subclass of NSView which basically does what NSTableView does; but using NSView objects instead of NSCell objects). Both of my ideas seem like far too much work; which makes me think I'm almost certainly doing it wrong. So what are my bad assumptions and how would you do this? Thanks --James _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
