[macrophyllum]

Hi,

I searched the archives and documentation and got some good ideas, but I can't figure out where to go next.

The following is in regards to an outline view:
What I want to do is make it so that when the user presses the tab key the next cell in a row gets edited until the last cell in a row is being edited (this is the default behavior), THEN I want the tab key to start editing a cell one level down in an outline view. If the user is editing a child in the outline and tabs all the way over and there are no more rows below, except for a parent, then the editing stops.

I over-rode textDidEndEditing in my subclassed outline view and used the dictionary hacks (http://lists.apple.com/archives/coco...tablev.001.txt) to make it so that hitting return ends editing instead of editing the next cell down.

My guess is that I have to call NSCell's - (void) editWithFrame: (NSRect) aRect inView: (NSView *) controlView editor: (NSText *) textObj delegate: (id) anObject event: (NSEvent *) theEvent method in my textDidEndEditing method in my sub-classed outline, but I don't know what to pass it for the arguments.

Thanks in advance,
Ian

[Rickster]

Close but not quite. Actually, you'll want to call NSTableView's -editColumn:row:withEvent:select:. (Remember, NSOutlineView is a subclass of NSTableView.) You'll probably want to pass nil as the event.

See OAExtendedOutlineView in our open-source OmniAppKit framework for a handful of examples of programmatically invoking a cell editor.

[macrophyllum]

Thanks for helping out Rickster, you do a great job!