Re: NSAttributedString in table data cells

[Fred Kiefer]

Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> Quoting Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de>:
> 
>>
>>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.
>>
> 
> 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".
> 
Not sure, if I agree to that. The new behaviour may seem sensible to you
and me, but others may rely on the Cocoa behaviour. As soon as I can get
hold of Mac, I will try to found out, how it behaves here.

Fred