On Thursday, May 01, 2008, at 01:14PM, "John Stiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >An NSView doesn't have an associated cell, so "size to fit" doesn't >really have a meaningful answer. Size-to-fit works by asking the cell >what size it should be. > >For a box, you could just enumerate the subviews and get the union of >all the subview frames. > >Randall Meadows wrote: >> On May 1, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Martin wrote: >>> What about NSControl's sizeToFit method? >> >> I guess I didn't mean "controls" exclusively; I should have stuck with >> "views", as (at least) one of the things I need to create is an NSBox >> that contains multiple controls. Which is why I was looking in NSView >> for the right call. But yeah, that'll work for the majority of things >> I need to create. >> >> And now that I think about it....I don't really need (nor want) for >> the box to have a border, so perhaps I can manipulate it just >> encompass the sized-to-fit controls in it. But still, is there no >> such beast for NSViews? >> >> While I'm at it...is there no way to create an NSMatrix of >> NSPopupButtons? I can't seem to manage it in IB, and I'm not yet at >> the point to try it in my code. >> >>> Martin >>> >>> On May 1, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Randall Meadows wrote: >>> >>>> I am creating a bunch of controls (at least NSTextfield, >>>> NSPopupButton, NSSlider, and perhaps others) programmatically (that >>>> will eventually be shown in an NSTableView), and would like to apply >>>> the "Size To Fit" feature that IB provides. However, there doesn't >>>> seem to be any API that does that. >>>> >>>> Does IB simply brute-force the resizing for every type of view, or >>>> am I missing the appropriate call in the NSView API?
Just to throw this out there to... IB's size-to-fit function is still very much a mystery. For all my IB palettes (IB 2.x) and plug-ins (IB 3.x), I added a custom mySizeToFit method for most of my controls. Then, the inspector had a button that would invoke that method. As much as possible, it would rely on framework routines such as cellSize to return an appropriate size for each cell. Multi-cell controls would of course need to do a proper union and optionally space things out too. At the end of the method, I would then do a setFrame (or was that setSize?) Anyhow, I found it really weird that IB's size to fit menu never would invoke sizeToFit in code. breakpoints and logging lines never were hit. There's still a bit of IB magic going on where I think IB will only do work for specific classes. The other nice thing of your own sizeToFit methods is that you could then add it to your view classes too. I would recommend perhaps a protocol you could mix in to all your views/controls that needed such an API. And, if you're doing IB palettes/plug-ins, you'd have something you could tap into as well. -- Rick Sharp Instant Interactive(tm) _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
