Any connection you make from a table cell view to something outside of the 
table column is suspect.  It probably doesn't work.

The views "inside" of a table column are actually in a sub-NIB.  There's a NIB 
archived to a data blob that's embedded in the NIB holding the outline view.  
That NIB is unarchived and loaded by the table/outline view in its 
-makeViewWithIdentifier:owner: method.  The owner is whatever you pass to that 
method.  (If you let the table/outline view create views without its delegate 
being involved, it will pass its own delegate as the owner.)

When that sub-NIB is loaded, it contains just its own objects.  None of the 
other objects from the outer NIB.  The menu is presumably in the outer NIB, not 
the sub-NIB.  So, the cell views won't be able to establish their connection to 
the menu.

One exception is the File's Owner placeholder.  A connection to that works, but 
may give a different result than you expect.  The File's Owner for the sub-NIB 
is the owner passed to -makeViewWithIdentifier:owner:.  It's not the owner of 
the outer NIB.

You will need to connect the menu programmatically, most likely in your 
delegate's -outlineView:viewForTableColumn:item: method.

Regards,
Ken

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Konidaris Christos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes I did set it, to the outlineView’s delegate object.
> 
> 
>> On 10 Feb 2016, at 23:32, Lee Ann Rucker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Did you set the menu's delegate? It doesn't know about the outlineView's 
>> delegate.
>> 
>>> On Feb 10, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Konidaris Christos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I cannot get contextual menus to work inside the cells of my view-based 
>>> NSOutlineView. 
>>> 
>>> In my cell view I have one standard NSImageView and one NSTextFieldCell. I 
>>> set the menu for the outline view in IB. When I (right) click on a cell 
>>> outside the two views the contextual menu appears. When I click on one of 
>>> the two fields it does not. I can see from the logs that the menu 
>>> delegate's menuNeedsUpdate: is not called in this case.  I tried setting 
>>> the same menu as the menu for these views in IB with the same result.  I 
>>> get the same behavior when I implement  -menuForEvent:(NSEvent *)event for 
>>> my NSOutlineView subclass instead of setting the menu in IB.
>>> 
>>> I also tried implementing -menuForEvent:(NSEvent *)event for my 
>>> NSTableCellView subclass with no better luck. This all in Xcode 7.2.1, 
>>> deployment target set to 10.9, no ARC.
>>> 
>>> Does anybody know what I am missing for the contextual menu to work for my 
>>> cell views?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> 
>>> - Christos Konidaris
>>> 
>> 
> 
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