Handling custom selection style in view based NSTableView

Question

How do I go about drawing my own custom selection style for a view based NSTableView ? I tried putting a BOOL var in my NSTableCellView subclass and set that to YES if it is clicked and then I can successfully draw my custom selection. But how do I change that BOOL var to NO when another view is clicked? Thanks for any help.

EDIT: After reading through the NSTableView docs, it looks like I need to subclass NSTableRowView to override the selection drawing, but what do I do with my NSTableRowView subclass? How do I get the table to use it?

Answer 1

Alright, I figured it out. You just have to subclass NSTableRowView . It has methods for drawing the background for selected and deselected rows. To get the table view to use your subclass just implement the table view delegate method tableView:rowViewForRow: and return an instance of your subclass.

Answer 2

To make things clear, I think we should give the code of the delegate method :

- (NSTableRowView *)tableView:(NSTableView *)tableView rowViewForRow:(NSInteger)row
{
   MyNSTableRowView *rowView = [[MyNSTableRowView alloc]init];
   return rowView;
}