On Jul 3, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2012, at 11:03 , Andy Lee wrote: > >> I haven't used RBSplitView, but it sounds like it might be handy to have a >> method for replacing an already-set-up NSSplitView with an RBSplitView. >> Maybe it could be a category method on NSSplitView, something like this: >> ... >> This way you can still use IB to lay out the subviews of the split view, >> using a regular NSSplitView. In awakeFromNib, you can swap out the split >> view by calling this method. > > > Now that's an interesting idea, thanks Andy! I'll look into it soon, I hope.
P.P.S. I'm not sure how to deal with autolayout constraints that might get broken. Does replaceSubview:with: transfer constraints that were on the old view to the new view? (It would have to do some behind-the-scenes trickery, since NSLayoutConstraint is immutable.) What about the constraints on views within the subview panes? You *might* be okay there if all relevant constraints are contained in those views, but what if they're not? What if there's a constraint connecting a button inside one of the panes to a button outside of the split view entirely? Might not be a problem in practice. The worst case might be that on rare occasions, the programmer will have to patch some broken constraints after calling +transmogrify:. --Andy _______________________________________________ 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
