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In iTunes 10 Apple switched to a taller table header with a slightly different visual appearance, where the column dividers don't reach the top of the row, and certain cells have extended sorting functionality when clicked.

Here is what i'm refering to:

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Are these a custom control created specifically for iTunes or can they be uses by other applications?

Dave DeLong
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iTunes is a Carbon app. It doesn't use NSTableView. You can be sure that's custom.

Lily Ballard
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  • For what it’s worth, the iTunes binary refers to some Cocoa symbols (e.g. `NSScrollView`, `NSPopUpButton`) so it looks like they’re (slowly) moving to Cocoa. `NSTableView` is not one of those symbols, though. –  Jan 20 '11 at 06:06
  • That's curious. iTunes is a cross-platform codebase. The only way it makes sense to pull in bits from Cocoa is if those bits are Mac-only. Of course, they could resurrect YellowBox, but then you'd expect a major rewrite. – Lily Ballard Jan 20 '11 at 06:38
  • thats too bad, i guess we'll have to roll our own, if we want similar functionality – Jared Zimmerman Jan 20 '11 at 07:38