cocoa: how to create single column table view with checkboxes and labels - xcode

Question

I have a fixed number of text items I want to display with checkboxes to select/deselect in a cocoa tableview. Exactly like a listbox of items with checkboxes in Microsoft MFC.
If I drop the section labels and checkboxes into the TableView they don't seem to belong to the tableview. Note: the labels are to divide/designate the sections for the checkbox items.
What are the correct steps?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can make a CustomCell class: take a NSTextField and NSButton(for checkbox)-
set UIButton state in IB:
for default state - set non selected image.
for selected state - set selected image.
In CustomCell.m file
-(void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected
{
[checkBoxBTN setSelected:selected];
}
you can do this in also cellForRowAtIndex method in your tableView class.
your table data source should be a ModelClass or a dictionary with two keys like title and its state(selected/nonSelected).
In didSelectAtIndexPath method you need to update your dictionary like:
NSMutableDictionary * dic = [yourDataSourceArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
NSNumber *state = [dic valueForKey:#"state"];
[dic setValue:![state boolValue]];
You need to modify your cellForRowAtIndexPath Method to show prev selected/nonSelected state
NSMutableDictionary * dic = [yourDataSourceArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
NSNumber *state = [dic valueForKey:#"state"];
cell.title = [dic valueForKey:#"title"];
[cell.checkBoxBtn setSelected:[state boolValue]];
Edit
To create Label:
NSTextField *textField = [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(10, 10, 200, 17)];
[textField setStringValue:#"My Label"];
[textField setBezeled:NO];
[textField setDrawsBackground:NO];
[textField setEditable:NO];
[textField setSelectable:NO];
[cell addSubview:textField];