This following episode of Late Night Cocoa gives a solution to this precise problem of implementing the delete functionality on TableViews and OutlineViews without having to subclass it.
http://www.mac-developer-network.com/podcasts/latenightcocoa/episode9/index.html Hope it helps :) -Dalzhim 2008/10/20 Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 10/20/08 2:27 PM, Corbin Dunn said: > > >> Overriding deleteBackward: (from NSResponder) doesn't seem to work. > >> For > >> some reason, it is never called. > > > >For various reasons, NSTableView doesn't implement - > >interpretKeyEvents:, that's why it isn't called. > > Thanks for your reply Corbin! > > I assume NSOutlineView is the same? > > >This will work well, and is the only good way to implement it. > >Ideally, you would only want to do this if there isn't an active "type > >select" going on, but there is no API to tell if that is happening or > >not. (As usual, feel free to log requests for that). Theoretically, > >backspacing while type selecting could undo the last character; in > >practice, that is a dangerous thing to do, since you might > >accidentally delete something you didn't intend to. > > A few quickie followups, if I may: > > - so will this actually work with custom keybindings? Or is there just > no good way to support that? > - did I miss a constant for the backward delete char (an analogue to > NSDeleteCharacter)? I'm using 0xf728, discovered via gdb. :( > > Cheers, > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > Sean McBride, B. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com > Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/dalzhim.mlist%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ 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]
