Quote from Forum Archives on November 6, 2009, 4:40 am

Posted by: fbcocoa.bw <fbcocoa.bw@...>

Michele wrote:

> I need to write an application that includes, in one of the data
> entry window, a sort of spreadsheet table with 9 editable coulumns
> and 8 calculated, not editable columns.
>
> Is NSTableView the correct approach? I tried with Data Browser but
> they are lacunous in the data entry handling.
> (i.e. it's not possible to move the focus ring from one column to
> another one, it's not possible to make a selection in the vertical
> direction, ... ).
>
> I'm still considering to use FB for developing that application. I
> don't want to abandon it in favour of Cocoa, if possible.
>

Haven't done much with the NSTableView (been spending most of my time
in iPhone dev), but from your description it sounds like NSTableView
is the obvious choice.

Don't know if it's capable of doing what you want but the
NSCollectionView may be worth investigating.

Bernie