Re: making NSTableView headers editable.

[Adam Fedor]

It seems like it would be harmless to do this. Although it turns out to 
be harder than I thought to do it, so it might be a while.

rburns@softhome.net wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I don't have any means to find out MacOSX's 
> behavior. And I'm not sure I can justify the necessity of editing table 
> headers, but I'll tell you my situation.
> I have two lists of words put into an NSTableView with two columns.  And 
> I'd like an easy way for the user to give each list a title.  I suppose 
> you could use a dialog to get the users inpout, and then set the text in 
> the header view, but that seems a bit inconvenient.
> alsom, NSTableHeaderCell  inherits from NSTextFieldCell, which does 
> handle editing (if I understand everything correctly). So it would make 
> sense for the NSTableHeaderCell to handle editing as well.
> Rob
> Adam Fedor writes:
>
> > I'm not sure. Here's the documentation for what happens when there is 
> > a double click.
> > ------
> > - (void)setDoubleAction:(SEL)aSelector
> > Sets the message sent to the target when the user double-clicks an 
> > uneditable cell or a column header to aSelector. If the double-clicked 
> > cell is editable, this message isn't sent and the cell is edited 
> > instead. You can use this method to implement features such as sorting 
> > records according to the column that was double-clicked.
> > --------
> > It's not clear to me whether you should be able to edit the header 
> > from this. If you think there is a good reason to do so, or you can 
> > see how it works on MacOSX, it would be easy to fix it.
> >
> > rburns@softhome.net wrote:
> >
> > > I've been having problems making the NSTableHeaderView cell editable. 
> > > I've tried this:
> > > [[mytableColumn headerViewCell] setEditable: YES]
> > > but it didn't seem to have any effect. I was wondering, if I was 
> > > going about it wrong, or if there was some missing functionality in 
> > > gnustep-gui.
> > > Rob
> >
> >
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