Introduction to Outline Views

Explains how to use Cocoa outline views.

Who Should Read This Document

NSOutlineView, the class that implements outline views, is a subclass of NSTableView. Before reading about outline views, read Table View Programming Guide for Mac. In particular, The Parts of a Table describes how all the different classes used by a table fit together.

Organization of This Document

This programming topic contains the following articles:

About Outline Views gives basic information on outline views.
Using an Outline View Delegate describes delegate methods for a outline view.
Writing an Outline View Data Source describes data source methods for an outline view.