context menu based on NSTableViewCell

Question

i would like to place a context menu onto a NSTableView. this part is done. what i would liek to do is to show different menu entries based on the content of the ri

Answer 1

Edit: The better way to do this than the below method is using delegate as shown in the accepted answer.

You can subclass your UITableView and implement menuForEvent: method:

-(NSMenu *)menuForEvent:(NSEvent *)event{
    if (event.type==NSRightMouseDown) {
        if (self.selectedColumn == 0 || self.selectedColumn ==1) {
            return nil;
        }else {
            //create NSMenu programmatically or get a IBOutlet from one created in IB
            NSMenu *menu=[[NSMenu alloc] initWithTitle:@"Custom"];

            //code to set the menu items

            //Instead of the following line get the value from your datasource array/dictionary
            //I used this as I don't know how you have implemented your datasource, but this will also work
            NSString *deleteValue = [[self preparedCellAtColumn:1 row:self.selectedRow] title]; 

            NSString *deleteString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Delete %@",deleteValue];
            NSMenuItem *deleteItem = [[NSMenuItem alloc] initWithTitle:deleteString action:@selector(deleteAction:) keyEquivalent:@""];
            [menu addItem:deleteItem];

            //save item
            //similarly 
            [menu addItem:saveItem];

            return menu;
        }
    }
    return nil;
}

That should do it. I haven't tried out the code though. But this should give you an idea.