[seb2]

hi everybody,

does anybody have an idea how to make nstableview display bools as checkboxes? looked at formatters, but they are only good for strings.

in java, this is so easy...

anybody?

[lindberg]

Just set the dataCell for that table column to be a properly configured NSButtonCell.

From some old code I have...

NSButtonCell *dataCell;
NSTableColumn *column; //assume this exists

dataCell = [[[NSButtonCell alloc] init] autorelease];
[dataCell setButtonType:NSSwitchButton];
[dataCell setTitle:@""];
[dataCell setAlternateTitle:@""];
[dataCell setBordered:NO]; //does this make a difference?
[dataCell setImagePosition:NSImageOnly];
[dataCell setEditable:[column isEditable]];
[column setEditable:NO]; //gets in the way...
[column setDataCell:dataCell];

[seb2]

this works. great! but... what do i return in
- (id)tableView :objectValueForTableColumn:row:?

sorry, i'm used to java and tried returning YES or NO and this just crashes it...

[edit: haha, that smily in there is so appropriate that i left smilies enabled...]

[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: seb2 ]

[lindberg]

Well, you need to return an object :-) YES and NO are scalar values.

return [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES];

[seb2]

well, i guess i could have thought of that myself... ;-)

it works, thank you so much!