Respond to mouse events in text field in view-based table view

Question

I have text fields inside a custom view inside an NSOutlineView. Editing one of these cells requires a single click, a pause, and another single click. The firs

Answer 1

I wrote the following to support the case for when you have a more complex NSTableViewCell with multiple text fields or where the text field doesn't occupy the whole cell. There a trick in here for flipping y values because when you switch between the NSOutlineView or NSTableView and it's NSTableCellViews the coordinate system gets flipped.

- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent
{
    [super mouseDown: theEvent];

    NSPoint thePoint = [self.window.contentView convertPoint: theEvent.locationInWindow
                                                      toView: self];
    NSInteger row = [self rowAtPoint: thePoint];
    if (row != -1) {
        NSView *view = [self viewAtColumn: 0
                                      row: row
                          makeIfNecessary: NO];

        thePoint = [view convertPoint: thePoint
                             fromView: self];
        if ([view isFlipped] != [self isFlipped])
            thePoint.y = RectGetHeight(view.bounds) - thePoint.y;

        view = [view hitTest: thePoint];
        if ([view isKindOfClass: [NSTextField class]]) {
            NSTextField *textField = (NSTextField *)view;
            if (textField.isEnabled && textField.window.firstResponder != textField)

                dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                    [textField selectText: nil];
                });
        }
    }
}