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

Here is an example setting up an NSOutlineView programmatically within a view controller. This is all the plumbing you need to get the context menu up and running. No subclassing required.

I had previously subclassed NSOutlineView to override menu(for event: NSEvent), but came to a simpler set-up with the help of Graham's answer here and Warren's answer above.

class OutlineViewController: NSViewController 
{
    // ...
    var outlineView: NSOutlineView!
    var contextMenu: NSMenu! 

    override func viewDidLoad()
    {
        // ...
        outlineView = NSOutlineView()
        contextMenu = NSMenu()
        contextMenu.delegate = self
        outlineView.menu = contextMenu
    }
}

extension OutlineViewController: NSMenuDelegate
{
    func menuNeedsUpdate(_ menu: NSMenu) {

        // clickedRow catches the right-click here 
        print("menuNeedsUpdate called. Clicked Row: \(outlineView.clickedRow)")

        // ... Flesh out the context menu here
    }
}