Hoi,
Andreas Höschler wrote:
Hi all,
I want to have a checkbox in a tableview and be able to tab into it
from the column to its left with the TAB key and then set its state
with the keyboard (e.g. the space key, any other would be fine as
well).
This is to avoid the need to use the mouse for very efficient data
entry. I did
NSButtonCell *buttonCell = [[NSButtonCell alloc]
initTextCell:@""];
[buttonCell setButtonType:NSSwitchButton];
[buttonCell setImagePosition:NSImageOnly];
[buttonCell setSelectable:YES];
[buttonCell setEditable:YES];
[tableColumn setDataCell:buttonCell];
[_displayObjects addObject:buttonCell];
[buttonCell release];
This allows me to tab into and over the checkbox column on the Mac.
This
does not work under GNUstep! Why? I subclasses NSButtonCell
@implementation GSButtonCell
- (BOOL)acceptsFirstResponder
{
BOOL result = [super acceptsFirstResponder];
NSLog(@"%@ acceptsFirstResponder %d", self, result);
return result;
}
@end
and expected acceptsFirstResponder to be called when I try to tab into
the column. However, this does not happen under GNUstep!?
Is this method called under Cocoa? What GNUstep currently does when the
tab key is pressed is to check whether the next cell is editable and if
so the table view starts to edit that cell.
I agree that this is not the best behaviour. But what would be correct?
Check if the cell is selectable? Check the accepts first responder
state? And then just select the cell? Or edit it, if it is editable and
just select it if not? Your cell is editable. What sort of editing
behaviour do you expect from an NSSwitchButton?
I expect anObject in
- (void)tableView:(NSTableView *)aTableView setObjectValue:anObject
forTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)aTableColumn row:(int)rowIndex
{
}
to be [NSNumber numberWithInt:1] when the checkbox is checked and
either [NSNumber numberWithInt:0] or nil when the checkbox is
dechecked. On GNUstep I get an NSString that can be interpreted like an
NSNumber, on the Mac I get an NSCFBoolean instance. I suppose this is
an NSNumber sublcass. Whatever it is, I need to be able to decide in
the above method whether the checkbox got checked or dechecked. This
works on both platforms for mouseclicks. But it works on neither
platform for key events. On the Mac I get an NSCFBoolean (true) when on
the switch cell and pressing the space bar. Good so far. However, when
I tab into the checkbox column with a previously set checkbox, then
- (void)tableView:(NSTableView *)aTableView setObjectValue:anObject
forTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)aTableColumn row:(int)rowIndex
is called with NSCFBoolean (false). I consider this is a bug in Cocoa.
On GNUstep I currently cannot even tab into the checkbox column. It
would be great if we could get something sorted out in GNUstep that is
not correctly implemented in GNUstep. :-)
And who would get the space key? Normally the NSButton turns that key
into a click. Should the table view do the same? If so for all cells or
only for specific ones?
For the correct behaviour we will need a lot of tests with Cocoa. If
you
are willing to do this test and send in the result, it would be fairly
easy to implement the correct behaviour.
What exactly do you want me to test?
Until this has been sorted out correctly it would already help a lot,
if the not selectable checkbox column was simply jumped over when
tabbing through the row. Currently editing of the row (cells) stops
when the checkbox column is reached which is not appreciated by users.
:-)
Regards,
Andreas
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