Monthly Archives: April 2007

Non-locking Thumbnail View via Bindings

Problem: Binding an NSTableView to display non pre-cached images causes the view to be almost unusable. Each time the user tries to scroll the table becomes unresponsive until the image has been made ready to display.
Contraints: Table view is bound to Core-Data entity. No pre-caching.
Solution: Subclass NSManagedObject and implement a – (NSImage *)thumbnail; [...]