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NSTableColumn objects represent columns in NSTableViews.
Each NSTableColumn object is identified by an object, called the column identifier. The reason is that, after a column has been added to a table view, the user might move the columns around, so there is a need to identify the columns regardless of their position in the table.
The identifier is typically a string describing the column. This identifier object is never displayed to the user ! It is only used internally by the program to identify the column - so yes, you may use a funny string for it and nobody will know, except people reading the code.
An NSTableColumn object mainly keeps information about the width of the column, its minimum and maximum width; whether the column can be edited or resized; and the cells used to draw the column header and the data in the column. You can change all these attributes of the column by calling the appropriate methods. Please note that the table column does not hold nor has access to the data to be displayed in the column; this data is maintained in the table view's data source, as described in the NSTableView documentation. A last hint: to set the title of a table column, ask the table column for its header cell, and set the string value of this header cell to the desired title.