I'm a new Cocoa programmer working on my first non-trivial custom view and I have a question regarding the right way to handle view resizing.

Say that I have a list of shapes that I need to draw left to right across my view, and this list grows over time. Eventually, I will need to draw a shape outside of the existing view frame and I when this happens I want to resize the view.

Initially I had all of the drawing code directly in the view and when the code detected that the next shape would be outside of the existing view bounds it would resize it like this:

if((current + spacing + headerSize.width) >= rect.size.width) {
  NSSize newSize;
  newSize.width = [self frame].size.width + spacing+headerSize.width;
  newSize.height = [self frame].size.height;
  [super setFrameSize:newSize];
  [self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
}

I want to move to a model where the shapes draw themselves rather than having all of the drawing code in the custom view, but without the shape object knowing anything about the NSView object itself, only the NSRect that is being drawn.

What is the best practice for this? Am I thinking right that the shapes should draw themselves rather inspecting each shape and drawing it in the view? IF so, and a shape object knows that the view is not big enough for it to render itself, should it send a notification to the view telling it to resize or would it be best to just let the shape objects know about the NSView object? What are the implications for pagination during a print job?

I've looked at all the book examples that I have and did some searching on view resizing but none of the examples seem to really cover this case.

Thanks in advance for any help!

rjo
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