6/25/04 8:47 PMNSOutlineView and Tooltips and Java

This article will look at how I added tool tips to an NSOutlineView, and then made it Java compatible so that I could use it with my Java based outline view data source. I will also briefly discuss how the data cell was extended to include both text and images. The screen shot at the end of the article shows the end result.

My work is based on the original foundation from Andreas Mayer. I extended Andreas' work in two ways. First, I applied it to an NSOutlineView rather than an NSTableView. Second, I made it compatible with a Java data source, rather than an Obj-C data source. Hopefully this differentiation is sufficient to warrant a separate treatment from Andreas' work.

The article is presented as a PDF, since that is the easiest way to maintain the fidelity of the code.

Download the article by clicking here: Tooltip_Article.pdf