Hi,

Thanks Corbin for the reply. For some reason I completely forgot that 
NSOutlineView was a subclass of NSTableView. Yes, of course that is the best 
(and should have been obvious!) solution.

Cheers,
Demitri

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On May 30, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Corbin Dunn wrote:

> On May 30, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Demitri Muna <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Just because I hate orphaned questions (as no one answered), I thought I'd 
>> answer my own question.
>> 
>> Most examples that use Core Data/bindings/array controllers use a table view 
>> as the source view, but I wanted something more flexible with my own custom 
>> view that involved a little animation. Although NSTableCellView makes this a 
>> little easier, it still felt shoehorned into a table view.
> 
> Really? Why? It fits quite perfectly with the view based tableview.
> 
>> I think the best answer is the realization that I don't need a table view at 
>> all to use the machinery above,
> 
> I think the best solution is to use a view based NSOutlineView with variable 
> row heights and custom background drawing on the NSTableRowView.
> 
> FWIW, Xcode uses NSOutlineView (non-view based at the current time).

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