I'm beginning to wonder if it's possible to save and restore the
current disclosure state of the hierarchy of a NSOutlineView.
I solved this a while ago. Here is what I am doing:
I am saving in my model if an item is expanded or collapsed. To keep
the model up-to-date, I am doing the following:
- In outlineViewItemDidExpand: I am setting my expanded flag in the
model to YES.
- In outlineViewItemWillCollapse: I am checking if the item is
currently "visible" and only if it's visible, I set my expanded-flag
to NO. To check if it is "visible" I am going up in the hierarchy and
look if some of the parents is collapsed. If one is not expanded, I do
not change the expanded flag. E.g. like so:
- (void)outlineViewItemWillCollapse:(NSNotification *)notification
{
ModelItem *item = [[notification userInfo]
objectForKey:@"NSObject"];
BOOL visible = YES;
ModelItem *parent = [item parent];
while (parent && parent != root_ item) {
if (![parent getExpandedFlag]) {
visible = NO;
break;
}
parent = [parent parent];
}
if (visible) {
[item setExpandedFlag:NO];
}
}
Finally, to initialize the expansion state of the NSOutlineView items
at startup, I am doing the following:
- Recursively walk through the hierarchy in the model.
- Get the expanded flag of the current item.
- Before getting down in the hierarchy, call expandItem: for the
current item.
- Now go down recursively by calling this exansion initialization
routine for each child.
- Finally (after returning from the recursion) call collapseItem: for
the current item if its exanded flag (remembered in the second step)
is set to NO.
Like so:
- (void) initExpansions:(ModelItem *)root
{
ModelItem *child;
BOOL expanded = [root getExpandedFlag];
if (root != root_item) {
[outlineView expandItem:root];
}
for("every child of root") { // pseudo code!
[self initExpansions:child]; // go down recursively
}
if (root != root_item && !expanded) {
[outlineView collapseItem:root];
}
}
Regards,
Mani
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