Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSCell — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This class is the base superclass for the hierarchy of lightweight objects that know how to draw into a view. Most NSControl classes in the Application Kit defer the implementation of drawing to an associated NSCell. For example, NSButton uses a concrete subclass of NSCell, NSButtonCell, to handle all of the drawing and event handling of a button interface component. Cells provide a leaner alternative to using views in situations when a control appears repeatedly in a view. The interface of NSCell is closely mirrored in NSControl; indeed, many concrete subclasses of NSControl forward most messages to their associated NSCell object.

@interface NSCell : NSObject <NSCoding, NSCopying>

// Initializers

- (id)initImageCell:(NSImage *)image;

- (id)initTextCell:(NSString *)aString;

// Accessor Methods

- (void)setBezeled:(BOOL)flag;

- (void)setType:(NSCellType)aType;

- (NSCellType)type;

- (void)setCellAttribute:(NSCellAttribute)aParameter to:(int)value;

- (void)setAllowsMixedState:(BOOL)flag;

- (BOOL)allowsMixedState;

- (void)setTarget:(id)anObject;

- (id)target;

- (void)setAction:(SEL)aSelector;

- (SEL)action;

- (void)setImportsGraphics:(BOOL)flag;

- (BOOL)importsGraphics;

- (void)setTag:(int)anInt;

- (int)tag;

- (void)setTitle:(NSString*)aString;

- (NSString*)title;

- (void)setAllowsEditingTextAttributes