NSTableView - select row and respond to mouse events immediately [duplicate]

Answer 1

Had the same problem. After much struggle, it magically worked when I selected None as against the default Regular (other option is Source List) for the Highlight option in IB! The accepted answer appears to be more specific but a little hacky compared to this.

Answer 2

I solved this issue by subclassing NSTableView:

@implementation QuickResponseTableView

- (BOOL)validateProposedFirstResponder:(NSResponder *)responder forEvent:(NSEvent *)event
{
    // This allows the user to click on controls within a cell withough first having to select the cell row
    return YES;
}

@end