I'm not sure if I am doing things right but this is my problem:
I have a view-based NSTableView using bindings to an arraycontroller.
I need to do some custom drawing on each row, depending the represented object as well as capture click in certain areas so for this I would need to have a controller for each row and set outlets for the sub-views in my custom cell view, but I don't understand how I can achieve this.
If I just add an object to the nib and make the connections to it, then I cannot tell which of the views is being drawn (or has been clicked).
I just found someone asked a similar question and the answer to it also satisfies my needs, so for anyone ending up here, this is what I did:
I set my NSTableCellView controller as the delegate of the NSTableView.
In my NSTableCellView subclass I implement the needed methods (drawRect:, mouseUp: and so forth) and call the respective methods in the controller.
To access the controller I get the NSTableView and then its delegate like this:
NSTableView *tableView = (NSTableView*)myView.superview.superview.superview;
MyControllerClass *controller = (MyControllerClass*)tableView.delegate;
[controller view:myView drawRect:dirtyRect]
On the controller, to tell which view is sending an event, I use their identifiers.