NSTable Questions - Thanks in Advance

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#1

Hello there, as whenever I hit a stone wall and cannot go up, over, or around it, I come begging to the applescript forums. I am designing an application with a NSTable in it. The table will show a list of files in a certain folder, and will allow the user to manipulate the files in that folder. I can get all the file names and paths and such to appear in the table, however, I am unsure of how I can…

…allow the user to click on one of those names (highlight it) and then either a. double click it and/or b. click a seperate button to call a different fuction where the name they have highlighed would be a variable. Basically, how I can turn a value in the table into a variable I can use. I have started with stuff I’ve pieced together here:

on selection changed theObject
	if name of theObject is "scrolling view" then
		set theWindow to window of theObject

		set selectedDataRows to selected data rows of theObject
		
		if (count of selectedDataRows) = 0 then
			my clearDataVariable(theWindow)

			set enabled of button "play" of theWindow to false
		else
			my setDataVariable(theWindow, item 1 of selectedDataRows)
			
			set enabled of button "play" of theWindow to true
		end if
	end if
end selection changed

on setDataVariable(theWindow, theRow)
	tell "Finder"
		display dialog "Something is working"
	end tell

end setContactInfo
#2

Hi Deepee,

here an example how to handle double clicks

on double clicked theObject
	set r to selected row of theObject
	set selectedItem to (content of data cell 1 of data row r of data source of theObject) -- assuming the relevant data is in the first column
	my processSelection(selectedItem)
end double clicked

and similar for choosing the selected row with an external button click:

on clicked theObject
	tell table view "tv" of scroll view "sv" of window "main"
		set r to it's selected row
		set selectedItem to (content of data cell 1 of data row r of data source of it)
		my processSelection(selectedItem)
	end tell
end clicked

D.