Re: NSAttributedString in table data cells

[Sašo Kiselkov]

Quoting Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de>:

> Hi Saso,
>
> Sa&#65533;o Kiselkov wrote:
> > I found that when my code returns an NSAttributedString as the value for a
> table
> > data cell it doesn't display it as an attributed string, but instead by
> sending
> > it "description" (which obviously isn't right, is it?). The problem is in
> the
> > code of NSCell's "-setObjectValue:" which doesn't know about attributed
> > strings. I'd recommend adding a test case there which, if passed an
> > NSAttributedString, invokes [self setAttributedStringValue: object];.
> >
>
> is this the behaviour on Cocoa? The change you suggest seems sensible to
> me (and rather simple to implement), but I would like to be sure we do
> the same as Apple here.
>
> Fred
>

Even if it didn't exist in Cocoa, it isn't an incompatible change where we would
solve a particular problem in an incompatible way - we'd simply extend the basic
concept to be more intelligent and behave more as people would expect it - to be
able to use attributed and nonattributed strings interchangeably in controls.
The only difference for an app programmer would be: "this one's a plain string
and this one's a fancy string".

I've attached a patch to NSCell.m (diff'ed against the latest CVS version) which
should do it.

Regards
 Saso

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