objective-ccocoanstableviewnspopupbuttoncell

NSTableView with Dropdown Menu and having Image inside Menu


Yes, is it possible to have:

  1. A table having two column ( Should be easy)
  2. One of Cell should have image and that should be selectable from Drop - down menu
    By googling what i came to know it has to be of type NSPopupButtonCell type, but i want only image inside it, no text,
    How can i do that ?
  3. The another column would be editable, user should be able to type in that.

it would be great if i can get any reference code to implement the same.


Solution

  • i did it with following way,

    In Coloumn 1 select the DataCell and assign it of type NSPopupButtonCell, by default it wouldn't come, you need to select it explicitly.

    In the Code add following lines of Code...

    NSTableColumn *option = [pTableColumns objectAtIndex:[pTableView columnWithIdentifier:OPTION_COLUMN_NAME]];
    NSTableColumn *shortCutItem = [pTableColumns objectAtIndex:[pTableView columnWithIdentifier:SHORTCUT_COLUMN_NAME]];
    
    // we want first cell to have the Image & Menu 
    //Data type column drop down
    NSPopUpButtonCell *dataTypeDropDownCell = [option dataCell];//[[NSPopUpButtonCell alloc] initTextCell:@"" pullsDown:YES];
    [dataTypeDropDownCell setBordered:NO];
    [dataTypeDropDownCell setEditable:YES];
    
    NSArray *dataTypeNames = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"NULLOrignal", @"String", @"Money", @"Date", @"Int", nil];
    [dataTypeDropDownCell addItemsWithTitles:dataTypeNames];
    

    Add following code to set the correct MenuItem

    - (void)tableView:(NSTableView *)aTableView willDisplayCell:(id)aCell forTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)aTableColumn row:(NSInteger)rowIndex{
    
        if([[aTableColumn identifier] isEqualToString:OPTION_COLUMN_NAME]){
            NSPopUpButtonCell *dataTypeDropDownCell = [aTableColumn dataCell];
    
    
            [dataTypeDropDownCell selectItem:[ dataTypeDropDownCell itemAtIndex:3]];
        }
    
    }
    

    Now only pending this is to append Image inside MenuItem which is not a big deal at all,

    Again thanks for Looking at this, let me know if any other approach is there to do so....