Question

Is it possible to compile an App for Snow Leopard that contains an NSTableCellView reference, even if the window containing the reference to NSTableCellView is never displayed? (IE a different view is displayed if snow leopard is detected)?

Answer 1

Yes, it’s possible, but only if the nib containing the view-based NSTableView is never loaded on Snow Leopard. You’d need to use an NSViewController and two different nibs, one for Lion and one for Snow Leopard. Use a conditional in the view controller’s init method to do that:

- (id)init
{
     NSString* nibName = NSClassFromString(@"NSTableCellView") ? @"YourLionNibName" : @"YourSnowLeopardNibName";
     self = [super initWithNibName:nibName bundle:nil];
     return self;
}