[macrophyllum]

Ok, I want to make it so that each time a cell in a certain column of a talbe column is edited, a little window with an NSTextView in it pops up just below the edited cell.

Here is what I have done so far. I have subclassed NSWindow to make a window borderless and without a top bar. I also have it so that when the right cell is edited my custom window appears, but it appears in the wrong spot. I am still learing about coordinates, so hopefully someone can tell me what is wrong with this code. This is what gets called, when the text begins editing:

- (void)textDidChange {

if([myTableView editedColumn]==6) {

NSRect aRect =[myTableView frameOfCellAtColumn:6 [myTableView selectedRow]];

aRect = [myTableView convertRect:aRect toView:notesView]; //notesView is my NSTextView in my custom window


NSPoint origin = NSMakePoint(aRect.origin.x, aRect.origin.y);
[notesWindow display]; //this is my custom window
[notesWindow setFrameOrigin:origin];


[myParentWindow addChildWindow:notesWindow ordered:NSWindowAbove];
[notesWindow makeFirstResponder:nil];
}
}

Can someone please lend a hand to a newbie trying to do things he doesn't know how to do?

:-)

[Chuckit]

Well, first of all, I kind of wonder why you have the textview in another window. Why not put it in the same one?

But anyway, your problem is that -[NSWindow setFrameOrigin:] takes a point in screen coordinates. You're converting the point to notesView's coordinate system instead.

[macrophyllum]

The reason I don't have the textview in the same window is because there is no place for it. My main document window is basically just a tableview and toolbar, but I would like to make it easier for the user to be able to enter in large strings in the one column (the "notes" column) in a more conevient manner, thus the "pop up" window. I want it so that when the user starts to edit the notes column, a small window with just the textview in it appears and they type into that instead.

So, do you know how to convert my frame coordinates to screen coordinates?

[Chuckit]

Originally posted by macrophyllum:
So, do you know how to convert my frame coordinates to screen coordinates?

Here's a stab at what your code ought to look like:

Code:
- (void)textDidChange {

     if([myTableView editedColumn]==6) {

          NSRect aRect =[myTableView frameOfCellAtColumn:6 [myTableView selectedRow]];

          NSPoint origin = aRect.origin;
          origin = [myTableView convertPoint:origin toView:nil];
          origin = [[myTableView window] convertBaseToScreen:origin];

          [notesWindow display]; //this is my custom window
          [notesWindow setFrameOrigin:origin];

          [myParentWindow addChildWindow:notesWindow ordered:NSWindowAbove];
          [notesWindow makeFirstResponder:nil];
     }
}

I don't know anything about child windows, since I don't have Jaguar. But hopefully nothing needed fixing down there.

EDIT: Damn smilies.

[macrophyllum]

Thanks Chuckit! I got working great now!