Clicking on an image in a collection view

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I have a collection view and each item has an image and a label. I want to click the NSCollectionViewItem or NSImage and then hide the collection view and display a completely separate view containing the details of the object that was clicked.

I cant find any documentation on how to handle click events in this situation. How is this possible? I have built out the collection view in Interface Builder so everything was done via bindings as opposed to code.

Check this for the answer to your question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2541572/selection-highlight-in-nscollectionview — rakmoh, Jun 18 '13 at 17:35
I dont see the connection between that post and handling mouse clicks. Can you explain? — Jeff, Jun 18 '13 at 19:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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@Jeff, I don't have permissions to add a comment so writing this as answer.

You can overwrite setSelection in your subclass of NSCollectionViewItem (as explained by @indragie in Selection Highlight in NSCollectionView) to track the selected item and perform an action.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Jun 19 '13 at 04:01

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '13 at 16:57

The solution that I went with was to not actually use an Image Well, aka NSImage. I used a button and bound the Image property to an instance of an NSImage that I exposed as a property on my model.

It was easy enough but I'm shocked more people havent been asking this question.

Clicking on an image in a collection view

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