Ok, So in the meantime, I have a bunch of customers filing bugs/feature requests to implement this ability.. (Its a popular request, shall we say..)
Is this something that can be overridden, turned on/off? Has anyone done this? Thanks! bob. On Jul 10, 2012, at 3:48 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > I believe for icon-type views, the idea that shift-selecting selects a range > of items is no longer considered best practice these days. For example, the > icon view in the Finder doesn't do that (list view does). > > command-click and shift-click are the same thing for icon views, i.e. they > toggle the clicked item. > > --Graham > > > > > > On 09/07/2012, at 5:34 PM, Robert Monaghan wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> In a previous posting, I had a problem with NSCollectionView not selecting a >> range of objects, when shift-selecting items. >> For example, if I were to click on object "3" and then shift-click on object >> "5", I would expect a range of 3,4,5 to be highlighted. >> Instead only 3 and 5 are selected. >> >> Ok, so multi-selection works. Sorta.. >> >> (BTW, this same behavior happens with Imagebrowser sample app from Apple.) >> >> I added an observer to my NSArrayController's "selectionIndexes" to see what >> it think is happening. >> Sure enough, the NSArrayController is getting a bunch of ranges that look >> like this: >> >> <NSIndexSet: 0x100648650>[number of indexes: 2 (in 2 ranges), indexes: (2 4)] >> >> I would have expected something like this: >> <NSIndexSet: 0x100362a50>[number of indexes: 3 (in 1 ranges), indexes: (2-4)] >> >> Suggestions? >> I see a "setSelectionIndexes:" selector in the NSCollectionView object. >> Do I need to do something here? It seems like a huge headache to "teach" >> NSCollectionView to do a properly shift-selection of a range. > _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
