Dont deselect a selected row in view based NStableview when clicked outside

Question

In my view based NSTableView i don't want to deselect the selected cell, when clicking in an empty part of the NSTableView, how to obey this default behavior?

Answer 1

Improved version from Neha's answer (this obeys the select / deselect)

Subclass NSTableView and implement :

- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent {

    NSPoint globalLocation = [theEvent locationInWindow];
    NSPoint localLocation = [self convertPoint:globalLocation fromView:nil];
    NSInteger clickedRow = [self rowAtPoint:localLocation];

    if(clickedRow != -1) {
        [super mouseDown:theEvent];
    }
}

We just ignore the event, when we don't hit a row...