Thanks! Got it running in a few minutes. For others, I used the NSTableViewDelegate methods
tableView:toolTipForCell:rect:tableColumn:row:mouseLocation: and tableView:shouldShowCellExpansionForTableColumn:row: to prevent the cell expansion. ------------ Don Hall Apps & More Software Design, Inc. d...@appsandmore.com On 2012-05-02, at 11:54 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: > From: Corbin Dunn <corb...@apple.com> > To: Donald Hall <d...@appsandmore.com> > Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com > Subject: Re: NSTableview tooltip bug? > Message-ID: <0a0b2cde-d218-4d90-8021-c73872afd...@apple.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > hi don, > I recommend using the builtin tooltip support in NSTableView. There is a > delegate method to provide the tool tip. Next, you are seeing > expansionToolTips. Look at NSCell.h for custom drawing API for them. Or, turn > them off for your table with API on NSTableView. > > corbin > > On May 1, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Donald Hall <d...@appsandmore.com> wrote: > >> I have an NSTableview column where each cell contains a file name. I use >> tooltips (addToolTipRect and NSToolTipOwner protocol) to show the complete >> path to the file when the user hovers the mouse over the cell. This works >> fine unless the name of the file exceeds the column width - 3 pixels. i.e. >> if the width of the text for the cell is greater than (column width - 3) I >> get a strange behaviour: the correct tooltip flashes briefly in the usual >> place relative to the cell, then the cell itself becomes highlighted with a >> bright yellow background. If the text width is greater than the cell width >> the the highlighted rectangle extends over the column boundary, so I guess >> it is the enclosing rectangle of the cell's text that is highlighted. >> >> I created a category on NSString to define a truncated string method where I >> remove characters from the middle of the string to fit it into a specified >> width. My workaround to this problem was to specify the column width - 3 as >> the width I wanted for the truncated string. >> >> Has anyone else seen this? Is it a known bug? >> >> Thanks, Don >> >> ------------ >> Don Hall >> Apps & More Software Design, Inc. >> d...@appsandmore.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
