Is it possible to design NSCell subclasses in Interface Builder?

Question

I\'m trying to subclass NSCell for use in a NSTableView. The cell I want to create is fairly complicated so it would be very useful if I could design it in Interface Builder

Answer 1

Joar Wingfors wrote an article for Stepwise a few years back on a related topic, Subviews in TableView Rows.

The principal technique is to create an NSCell that can host an NSView. If you were to do this, you could then design an NSView subclass in Interface Builder that you could embed anywhere you need that specific cell.

Another possibility, if you can target Leopard, is to see whether you need to use an NSTableView or whether you can use an NSCollectionView. Collection views deal directly in terms of "item views" rather than in cells, so they're much more straightforward to design in Interface Builder.