11.2. Tables

NSTableView is a relatively simple class for displaying two-dimensional structured data in the form of records. Data in the table is indexed first by row and then by column. Rows are identified by a numerical index and are implicitly ordered in the model. Columns are identified by NSTableColumn index and are not.

Columns in a table view can be reordered without any interaction with the model. The table view supports dragging them around to rearrange them. The data source is completely unaware of the order of columns in the model. Data for a specific row-column intersection is requested from the data source using this method: