On Jul 10, 2014, at 2:02 AM, Aandi Inston wrote: > 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.
Umm, Auto Layout? You can easily align elements by baseline... HTH, Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. "Demystifying technology for your home or business" _______________________________________________ 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
