I am porting a library for dynamic dialog creation to Cocoa. The implementation is using various standard controls such as NSTextField and NSButton. I have a question.
Suppose a dialog is to contain a line with multiple controls like [ ] Add ________ seconds [before/after] Here [ ] Add is a check box _____ is an editable text field seconds is a noneditable text field [before/after] is a popup button Each of these controls contains text, and the aim here is to align the text so it does not jump up and down - to align the text baseline. If the top of the controls, or the bottom of the controls, are aligned then the text itself will not be aligned. Two possibilities suggest themselves - fixed constants, based on experiments (which will perhaps go awry if the system configuration changes) - work out the height of each of these controls, assume padding is equal top and bottom, and adjust alignment by half of the difference (this is an attractive idea, but I note in a single experiment that the height of noneditable text was 16 while editable text was 21, a difference of 2.5 pixels which is awkward). Is there a better way to do this? I imagine it's a problem faced before. Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ 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
