cocoa - Autoselect, focus and highlight a new NSOutlineView row -

this lack of experience nsoutlineview can't see way this. have nsoutlineview (implemented excellent pxsourcelist) add button totally functional in aspect save/write/insert/delete rows correctly. not use nstreecontroller, , don't use bindings. add entity using following code:

- (void)addentity:(nsnotification *)notification {     // create core data representation, , add child parent node     uabasenode *node = [[uamodelcontroller defaultmodelcontroller] createbasenode];     [sourcelist reloaddata];     (int = 0; < [sourcelist numberofrows]; i++) {         if (node == [sourcelist itematrow:i]) {             [sourcelist selectrowindexes:[nsindexset indexsetwithindex:i] byextendingselection:no];             [sourcelist editcolumn:0 row:i withevent:nil select:no];             break;         }     } } 

when add button pressed, new row inserted this:

if click away, select row , press enter edit it, looks this:

my question is: how can programmatically same state (focus, selected, highlighted) first time, make user experience better?

something works me:

- (void)addentity:(nsnotification *)notification {     // create core data representation, , add child parent node     uabasenode *node = [[uamodelcontroller defaultmodelcontroller] createbasenode];     [sourcelist notenumberofrowschanged];     nsinteger row = [sourcelist rowforitem:node];     [sourcelist scrollrowtovisible:row];     [sourcelist selectrowindexes:[nsindexset indexsetwithindex:row] byextendingselection:no];     [sourcelist editcolumn:0 row:row withevent:nil select:yes]; } 

you can use rowforitem: instead of repeatedly checking itematrow:.

you want use [sourcelist scrollrowtovisible:...] in case new row isn't visible , can use notenumberofrowschanged instead of reloaddata, unless data has changed.

the standard mac behavior select contents of newly created item, use select:yes.

if doesn't help, there's else going on in code above snippet doesn't communicate...

in general, i'd suggest when learning new class read way through documentation page listing methods available (excepting deprecated methods), or @ least methods available task you're trying perform; you'll better idea of capabilities of class , less use inappropriate/inefficient/inelegant method.