NSTableView
A user interface object that displays data for a set of related records with rows representing individual records and columns representing the attributes of those records.
NSTableView是一个与用户交互的对象,主要用来显示一组相关的数据,行代表单个的数据,列代表数据的属性。
Overview
Table views are displayed in scroll views. Beginning with macOS v10.7, you can use NSView objects (most commonly customized NSTableCellView objects) instead of cells for specifying rows and columns. You can still use NSCell objects for each row and column item if you prefer.
表视图是在scroll view里面显示的。从mac OS v10.7起,可以使用NSView对象(大多数情况下自定义NSTableCellView对象)代替cell来显示行和列。当然如果你偏爱用NSCell的话,也可以使用NSCell来代替使用行和列。
A table view does not store its own data; it retrieves data values as needed from a data source to which it has a weak reference. You should not, therefore, directly set data values programmatically in the table view; instead, modify the values in the data source and allow the changes to be reflected in the table view. To learn about the methods that an NSTableView object uses to provide and access the contents of its data source object, see NSTableViewDataSource.
表视图是不存储数据的,需要的时候它会从数据源获取数据,这个数据源具有弱相关性。所以程序上不能直接在表视图上处理数据,而是要在数据源里修改数据,并将这种改动映射在表视图里。想要了解更多关于NSTableView对象的用法,并用这些方法来提供和接入数据源,详情请看NSTableViewDataSource相关。
To customize a table view's behavior without subclassing NSTableView, use the methods defined by the NSTableViewDelegate protocol. For example, the delegate supports table column management, type-to-select functionality, row selection and editing, custom tracking, and custom views for individual columns and rows. To learn more about the table view delegate, see NSTableViewDelegate.
在不使用NSTableView对象的情况下,自定义一个表视图时,可以使用NSTableViewDelegate协议定义的方法。例如,代理提供表视图的列管理,类型与选择等功能,选中行,编辑行,自定义路径,单独为每一行或者列自定义一个视图。想要了解更多关于表视图代理,详情请见NSTableViewDelegate相关。
Important
It's possible that your data source methods for populating the table view may be called before awakeFromNib() is called if the data source is specified in Interface Builder. You should defend against this by having the data source's numberOfRows(in:) method return 0 for the number of rows when the data source has not yet been configured. In awakeFromNib(), when the data source is initialized you should always call reloadData on the table view.
如果数据源是在Interface Builder中处理的,那么处理表视图中数据源的方法可能会在awakeFromNib()方法之前被调用。为了防止这种现象发生,可以在配置数据源的方法numberOfRows(in:)里,在数据源还没有配置好之前,给行值返回0。在数据源初始化完了之后,在awakeFromNib()方法里,调用表视图的reloadData方法。
Subclassing
Subclassing NSTableView is usually not necessary. Instead, you customize the table view using a delegate object (an object conforming to the NSTableViewDelegate protocol) and a data source object (conforming to the NSTableViewDataSource protocol), or by subclassing one of the following subcomponents: cells (when using NSCell- based table views), the row cell view or the row view (when using NSView-based table views), the table column class, or table column header classes.
创建一个NSTableView对象不是必须的。自定义表视图的时候,一般使用代理(遵守NSTableViewDelegate协议的一个对象)和数据源(遵守NSTableViewDataSource协议的一个对象),或者创建一个NSCell对象(当使用的表视图是基于NSCell类时),即行单元或行视图(当使用的表视图是基于NSView类时),表视图的列或者头视图。