What I've done is have a custom NSView subclass that all my CollectionViewItems
use, which subclasses hitTest: and mouseDown:
- (NSView *)hitTest: (NSPoint)aPoint // IN
{
NSView *hitView = [super hitTest:aPoint];
if (hitView && ![hitView isKindOfClass:[NSTextField class]]) {
hitView =
Hi there great and wise Cocoa-Dev!
I am wondering if anyone knows if there has been any movement regarding how
selection is handled in NSCollectionViews. I see there was some conversation
on this subject a couple of years back
(http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/217489-selection-in-nsco
On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:56 AM, Quincey Morris wrote:
The IconCollection sample code doesn't do this. If you drag over the
collection, you get a marquee rectangle that selects everything
inside it. I see no code to do this (beyond the hitTest override at
the individual view level), so I conclud
On Sep 3, 2008, at 23:32, Markus Spoettl wrote:
I don't know about how to make this work with compound views - by
that I mean views containing other standard Cocoa subviews. I can
imagine things get considerably more difficult because those sub
views all have their own event handling implem
On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
But even after I tried to do something similar, I never got the
collection to select things using the mouse, so I gave up. (It does
work in IconCollection, but I couldn't find out why, or what was
different.) That was the 3rd time I gave up t
On Sep 3, 2008, at 16:05, Rick Mann wrote:
However, I don't seem to be able to change the selected item in the
collection view. A third view, bound to the NSArrayController that
runs the collection view, shows the values in the first object in
the collection view. But if I try to click on t
