Quincey, thank you. With your suggestion, and a private email, and
lots of reading :-), I have made some progress.
On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
On Sep 3, 2009, at 20:37, Michael de Haan wrote:
Now the part that does not work.
changeViewDelta as follows:
-(IBAction) changeViewDelta: (id) sender
{
NSRect newBounds;
newBounds.origin.x = newBounds.origin.x + 50.0;
.................
}
If that's your actual code, it's likely not going to work, because
you're failing to initialize newBounds. So you're offsetting
newBounds 50 pixels from a trash origin.
good point...thanks.
I expected this to call drawRect,.............
You don't say explicitly what class this 'changeViewDelta:' method
is in. If it's in the view, then of course 'self' is the correct
receiver for the message.
Yes it is.
Well, I **think** I now know what the problem is, but really not sure
**why** this occurs. (I have considerably modified the project to try
and understand this more fully).
(For simplicity, I implement an "int state" ivar to which drawRect
refers)
In init, this:
- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame {
self = ........
[self setCurrentColor:[NSColor yellowColor]];
[self setState: 1];
.........
}
Here is the relevant code in drawRect;
static int status = 0;
if (status == 0)
[ [self currentColor] set];
else if ( status % 2)
[[NSColor blackColor]set];
else
[[NSColor blueColor]set];
status +=1;
and in
-(IBAction) changeViewDelta: (id) sender
{
//NSRect newBounds = [self bounds];
NSRect newBounds = [view bounds]; <<<<<------ Issue: self
bounds...see below.
newBounds.origin.x = newBounds.origin.x + 50.0;
newBounds.origin.y = newBounds.origin.y + 50.0;
newBounds.size.width = 50.0;
newBounds.size.height = 75.0;
[self setState:2];
//[view setNeedsDisplayInRect:newBounds]; <<<-----same Issue...see
below.
[self setNeedsDisplayInRect:newBounds];
}
With this code, the changes are as I would expect. The view is
initially yellow. Subsequent changes via changeViewDelta show a small
block in the window which changes color from black to blue.
Now, here is what is puzzling.
1) Even though, as Quincey alluded to, I would have expected the
outlet "view" and self to be equivalent, they are not.It seems as if
"self" to changeViewDelta is a different entity from the outlet "view".
2) The ivar set in the "init" method is used by drawRect during the
"first pass" ( if that is the correct term ie when status is 0), but
in subsequent calls, initiated by setNeedsDisplayInRect, ( and I do
understand that setNeedsDisplayInRect "informs" the view of a need for
a refresh), even thought drawRect gets passed the correct "dirtyRect"
bounds, when , from within drawRect I try to access the "state" Ivar
( which should now be 2) , what drawRect sees is still 1...and that
seems to be the problem. (Note: I have used an int for simplicity, but
the same occurred if I tried to use a color directly from drawRect).
So, in summary, changeViewDelta **seems** to work as expected, but
drawRect does not see these changes, even though both methods are in
the same class.
I hope I have articulated this clearly.
:-)
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