nscollectionview – Tarik Billa

Selection Highlight in NSCollectionView

December 11, 2023 by Tarik

If a different background color will suffice as a highlight, you could simply use an NSBox as the root item for you collection item view. Fill the NSBox with the highlight color of your choice. Set the NSBox to Custom so the fill will work. Set the NSBox to transparent. Bind the transparency attribute of … Read more

How to create NSCollectionView programmatically from scratch?

December 11, 2023 by Tarik

I’m not sure there’s much insight in creating a collection view programmatically and without bindings, but here it goes. Introduction There are essentially four components when using a collection view: View: a subclass of NSView, responsible for displaying information; The collection view itself; View controller: a subclass of NSCollectionViewItem that serves as the collection view … Read more