Kyle - I've tried the suggestion of subclassing -scrollWheel: and swipeWithEvent: to prevent the table views being scrolled - and they work.
Many thanks Peter On 21 Nov 2011, at 16:33, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Richard Somers > <rsomers.li...@infowest.com> wrote: >> On Nov 21, 2011, at 5:11 AM, Peter Hudson wrote: >> >>> I have an NSTableView whose position I want to control purely >>> programatically. >>> >>> How do I stop the user from changing its position using the mouse - >>> including two finger swipe gestures ? >> >> The position of the NSTableView is set with -initWithFrame: along with all >> of the various frame methods. Column adjustment is controlled with >> -setAllowsColumnReordering: and -setAllowsColumnResizing:. > > -initWithFrame: really doesn't matter here, since the table view is > contained within an NSScrollView and will automatically resize itself > to fit its content. > > Peter, AFAIK there's no way to disable user-initiated scrolling in an > NSScrollView via API. If this is the same scenario as your previous > thread, where you had one data table, a row header table, and a column > header table, then you've got a couple of options as far as I can > tell, all of them pretty advanced: > > 1. Subclass NSTableView and override -scrollWheel: and > -swipeWithEvent: to do nothing. This is probably the easiest method, > but the most likely to result in Whack-A-Mole of finding new ways that > scrolling can be performed and plugging those holes. You might also > need to subclass NSScrollView's implementation of these methods. > > 2. Embed the row and column NSTableViews inside NSClipViews _without_ > an enclosing NSScrollView. Change the code from our previous > discussion to message the header views' clip views directly, rather > than going through the -enclosingScrollView method. Essentially this > means changing [tableView scrollPoint:] to [clipView > setBoundsOrigin:]. > > 3. Put all three table views inside one NSScrollView. Subclass > NSScrollView and override -tile to arrange the three views correctly. > Having tried similar things myself, this is a fairly difficult > endeavor. It might not even be possible. > > Is there a particular reason you wish to disable user-initiated > scrolling in this view? Perhaps you can just turn off visible > scrollers in your other table views to maintain the illusion that this > is just one big table view. > > --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
