[VEGAN]

OK, I have a TABLE and I can select row. Fine.

But what I need is to get the stringValue of the item in the a given COLUMN of the selected row.

What should I do?

Get an array and turn it into a string? or something?

[Ghoser777]

Well, you already know how your table view is displying text - that's because you implemented tableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row: in your delegate, right? Then you can just send this message to your delegate with the appropriate tableView instance, tableColumn instance, and row index (found by calling NSTableView's selectedRow method, although it's slightly more involved if more than one row can be selected), and it will return the object value. That is, what you see is what you get.

There's other ways - I usually write a custom method that does virtually the same thing as tableView:objectValue..., but it only accepts a couple parameters, like the tableView, the column identifier, and the row index.

Does that make sense?
Matt Fahrenbacher

[VEGAN]

Originally posted by Ghoser777:
Well, you already know how your table view is displying text - that's because you implemented tableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row: in your delegate, right? Then you can just send this message to your delegate with the appropriate tableView instance, tableColumn instance, and row index (found by calling NSTableView's selectedRow method, although it's slightly more involved if more than one row can be selected), and it will return the object value. That is, what you see is what you get.

There's other ways - I usually write a custom method that does virtually the same thing as tableView:objectValue..., but it only accepts a couple parameters, like the tableView, the column identifier, and the row index.

Does that make sense?
Matt Fahrenbacher

Hmmm... it almost(*) makes sense. Let me try it out.

I've never completely understood what the heck is the "objectValueForTableColumn"?? Is it the column's identifier? Or..?

(*) It's veeeeeeeery late where I am so this makes it harder for me

[VEGAN]

THANX I GOT IT