It's definitely possible I'm mixing things up. :-) So to create a subclass to further customize the look of my cells beyond the basics I should be subclassing NSTableRowView correct? From what I've seen in the documentation Apple is just dragging a new view onto the table view and setting that view to their subclass right? Since there's no actual NSTableRowView object in IB. But if I don't set its User Interface Item Identifier to NSTableViewRowViewKey the table view will not draw with my subclass. Ok I suppose I could write it in code but I was trying to do it as code-free as possible. Thanks for the help,
rc On Apr 3, 2012, at 3:24 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote: > On 02.04.2012, at 08:58, Rick C. wrote: >> Just trying to make sure I'm on the right track here...so I'm doing my first >> view-based table view and I do like how I can set a lot of things up in IB >> like text fields, etc. But I want to customize the rows (give them a >> gradient, etc.) so am I understanding correctly that I should drag out a >> custom view in IB onto my table view and set that to a subclass of >> NSTableRowView, set its identifier to NSTableViewRowViewKey, then do my >> custom drawing in that subclass? I'm asking because it seems I can do >> custom drawing in a NSTableCellView subclass as well? Thanks for the >> pointers, > > > If I understand you correctly, you're mixing things up. The identifier is the > reuse identifier. I.e. all cells with the same identifier are considered > interchangeable when the table needs a new cell, so if there's an unused cell > with the same identifier, it will be used. > > Setting the identifier has no effect on the kind of cell class that is > created. The cell class is determined by the "Custom Class" of the view in > the XIB file, not by its identifier. > > You could theoretically use the same class for all your cells, but use > different constructors to set up their internals differently based on > different reuse identifiers. That's why the identifier is separate from the > cell class. > > Cheers, > -- Uli Kusterer > "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." > http://www.lookandfeelcast.com > > > _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
