Hi all, My solution to this problem can be found at:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/612805/arrow-keys-with-nstableview It's not very elegant but it gets the job done, and I'm welcome to suggestions for improvements. Cheers, Dave. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Dave Geering wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a clean way to subclass NSTableView or the field editor to > provide a way for users to change the currently editable cell in an > NSTableView by pressing the arrow keys? I've already tried subclassing > NSTableView but that will only be sent keyDown if a cell isn't being > edited, and I've tried creating a custom field editor but I cannot > reliably get the current position in the table so I don't know what to > pass to [tableView editColumn:row:withEvent:select] (assuming that's > the way I need to go). > > Is NSTableView even the control I want? The table of data in my > application can span perhaps 100 rows and up to 5 columns. The user > will be expected to enter data into a fair majority of these cells. I > already have everything set up using bindings so that the user can > edit the data but it is painstakingly tedious to double-click on each > cell to change it's value. Tabbing works quite well but because there > are other responders in my window, tabbing in the last column takes > you to the next key view. > > Thanks, > Dave. > _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
