On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Oct 11, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Jacek Oleksy <jole...@opera.com> wrote: >> >> I am not subclassing NSToolbar, I am using NSView (and putting >> NSButton as a subview). > > Why would you not use NSToolbar? I would bet that Apple “native” toolbars use > NSToolbar or a subclass there of. > NSToolbar is not a view, it is a class designed to "provide the mechanism for a titled window to display a toolbar just below its title bar" (from the doc). I need to display the toolbar in different place, that is why I need to use custom NSView (please correct me if I am wrong...).
>> Sadly, that is not true. From the documentation on >> NSTexturedRoundedBezelStyle: >> >> "A textured (metal) bezel style similar in appearance to the Finder’s >> action (gear) button. The height of this button is fixed." >> >> Setting programatically the height does nothing. > > I have a NSTexturedRoundedBezelStyle button in a toolbar (actually as Jens > pointed out a NSToolbarItem that displays a button). > > The height of my button is 22 points. If I programmatically set the height to > 60 points the button’s position shifts vertically by half that amount in the > tool bar. You are right that the graphics or image of the button does not > change. When the documentation states that “the height of this button is > fixed” I think that really means that visually the height of the image is > fixed. But the frame height of the button can be use to adjust the vertical > position of the button with respect to it’s superview which is a > NSToolbarItem. NSToolbarItem is not really a superview (it's not a view at all AFAICT). And yes, I know the containing frame can be resized, but I need to set the visual appearance of the button (or make it behave like in NSToolbar). > > Several years ago when this was fresher in my mind I believe I was also > struggling with the 24pt vs 22pt height. Perhaps this is Apple’s way of > adjusting the vertical position of the button image within the superview. > Still, I have no idea why the 22 vs 24px :/ /Jacek _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
