Take a look at the first post in the following link: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CoreAnimation
Basically, you just have the view's animator as a receiver rather than the view itself. This will automatically do the default animations for you. --Nick Paulson On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:55 AM, gumbo...@mac.com wrote: > Thanks Guys, that will work really well and its a nice neat solution. Can you > elaborate on the animation proxy a little bit or rather point me in the right > direction. > Cheers > Rob > > > On 4/01/2010, at 2:29 PM, PCWiz wrote: > >> Good point, the view subclass would be easy and clean. >> >> Independent Cocoa Developer, Macatomy Software >> http://macatomy.com >> >> >> On 2010-01-03, at 6:10 PM, Scott Anguish wrote: >> >>> I don’t think using NSScrollView is at all necessary in this case. That’s >>> much more of a situation for user interaction. >>> >>> This sounds more like the case for creating a view subclass that contains a >>> view that displays the current score. When the score increases, insert >>> another view visually above the other ( so it’d be like >>> >>> Main View >>> ———— >>> New View >>> >>> then using an animation proxy to move the main view up and the new view up >>> as well. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 3, 2010, at 6:27 PM, PCWiz wrote: >>> >>>> This isn't something thats extremely difficult to do. You will need to >>>> create NSView subclasses for the scores at the top. You can use >>>> NSAttributedString/NSMutableAttributedString to create styled text, and >>>> use their drawInRect method to draw the text into the view. It would be a >>>> good idea to read this: >>>> >>>> https://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaDrawingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html >>>> >>>> And more specifically, this: >>>> https://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaDrawingGuide/Text/Text.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40003290-CH209-BCIEEIGC >>>> >>>> For the scrolling scores below, you will have to put the scores into an >>>> NSTableView, or an NSCollectionView (the latter is better if you want to >>>> customize the display) inside an NSScrollView. As for the automatic >>>> scrolling, NSScrollView has nothing built in to facilitate this. Most >>>> likely you are going to have to use an NSTimer that fires every few >>>> milliseconds, and uses NSScrollView's scrollToPoint: method to scroll >>>> gradually until you hit the bottom. >>>> >>>> Independent Cocoa Developer, Macatomy Software >>>> http://macatomy.com >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2010-01-03, at 4:07 PM, gumbo...@mac.com wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have been asked to design a revolving scoreboard for a large Sporting >>>>> Clays event. The plan is to have a MacBook connected to a large flat >>>>> screen TV in the main tent. I will pull the scores from a CSV file (which >>>>> is updated regularly) and sort them into arrays for display. Creating the >>>>> on screen graphics is something I have not done much of with Cocoa. The >>>>> organizers have asked for a full screen display and would like have the >>>>> top 5 scores at the top of the screen and then scroll the rest of the >>>>> field below these scores. >>>>> I could punch this out with HTML and a bit of Javascript, but I thought >>>>> it might be good to do have a play with Quartz. >>>>> Can you please tell me how you good people might approach this? >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> >>>>> 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/pcwiz.support%40gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> This email sent to pcwiz.supp...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> 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/scott%40cocoadoc.com >>>> >>>> This email sent to sc...@cocoadoc.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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/gumboots%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to gumbo...@mac.com > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/cocoa%40nickpaulson.com > > This email sent to co...@nickpaulson.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. 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