On Nov 2, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The outline view delegates fire when a selection changes ... or should
> change -- but they don't say anything if you simply "reselect" an existing
> selection (turning it from GRAY to BLUE).

This is not a selection event.  It's a change of the window's firstResponder.  
The outline view shows its selection in blue when it or one of its descendant 
views is the first responder of the key window.

> Is there a best practice convention to "follow" the active selection so I
> can update the contextual view correctly?

You follow whether or not the window is key by observing the 
NSWindowDidBecomeKeyNotification and NSWindowDidResignKeyNotification 
notifications.  If the window delegate implements -windowDidBecomeKey: and/or 
-windowDidResignKey:, it is made to observe those notifications with those 
methods automatically.

You can follow a window's firstResponder using key-value observing (KVO).

Regards,
Ken


_______________________________________________

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

Reply via email to