Am 04.05.2008 um 13:25 schrieb Daniel:
Basically I wanted to display a window which modifies "graphically" another window. Under graphically I mean for example zooming of some parts of the window or change colors and so on and also to preserve the funcionality of the original window.
So, basically you're trying to write a GUI editor, like Interface Builder? In that case, I think what you'd really want to do is build your view hierarchy slightly differently. It's been a while since I tried writing a GUI editor in Cocoa, and I did half a dozen in Classic/ Carbon, so I may be mixing up things here, but there are several approaches, all of which might work depending on what you want to do:
1) Use NSImage and NSBitmapImageRep's -initWithFocusedViewRect: method to create a snapshot of each view. Then you can create a custom view for each view that draws such a snapshot, accepts clicks, draws a selected look, etc.
2) Wrap each view in a container view. I think there was some way to make a view get clicks before its subviews get them. That way, you can intercept the clicks and do something special with them when needed, and also draw a highlight to indicate a selection.
Views are objects just like any other, so you can easily create a new one using alloc/initWithFrame:, then use addSubview to insert it in another view etc., and thus dynamically change the view hierarchy or even build a completely new one, without a NIB. Same applies to NSWindows.
Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." http://www.zathras.de _______________________________________________ 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]
