Hi everybody, In the course of developing the application I'm working on, I got frustrated with having to create dummy data sources for my static source list outline views. They result in quite a bit of code that can be a mess to alter when you want to later add an item to the source list, they make localization difficult, and illogically put static interface-related data in code.
Combine this with the other annoying source list nits (overriding NSOutlineView just to implement -frameOfOutlineCellAtRow:, for example, when it should be a delegate method) and I decided to fight back with a framework and Interface Builder plugin I'm calling KSOutlineView. Right now it contains two classes: KSStaticTreeController, which when used in IB presents an interface for editing a static tree of data, and KSOutlineView, which doesn't do all that much differently from NSOutlineView. Right now the best immediate benefit is that binding a plain-vanilla NSOutlineView to a KSStaticTreeController results in a fully-usable outline view in the simulator. Ideally, I'd like KSOutlineView to present an interface for editing items directly in design mode and a mechanism for pulling data from multiple NSTreeControllers, so that you may for example have a static overall source list structure with certain subtrees fed by bindings. There are also a few issues, not the least of which is that Interface Builder doesn't recognize changes to a KSStaticTreeController's content, and thus does not mark the document as dirty. This code is very untested, since I wrote it today. If you'd like to take a gander at it, and maybe help me improve it, check it out at http://ksoutlineview.googlecode.com . Thanks! --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ 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
