On 13 Oct 2014, at 2:43 pm, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:

> But if I turn the popover into a window by allowing it to be dragged, the 
> window's content is screwed up - instead of sizing the overall view to fit 
> the window, a subview (an NSTableView) is sized to fill the window, and some 
> other views (a search field and a button) end up on top of the table. The 
> button is in the right place, but the search field is too wide and extends 
> beyond the window edge. Perhaps there is a problem with having a table view 
> inside a popover? It seems to work fine, so I think that's unlikely. Perhaps 
> the problem is with struts/springs being translated into constraints?


A further clue I've just doscovered: if I set the popover.animates = NO, the 
window is shown properly with its content in the right places. This suggests 
that the issue is with NSPopover's animation to the window. It seems to be 
trying (and failing) to be too clever, animating each subview's frame to its 
equivalent in the window.

However, since it has no possible information about which view in the two 
places are equivalent to each other, it must be using some sort of brain-dead 
method to figure out the associations. This is really stupid - either implement 
a method so that our code can give it the information or do not attempt such a 
thing. It seems it's deciding that my table "must be" the overall view and so 
sizes it to fit the window. Wrong! It wouldn't be quite so bad if I had the 
opportunity to fix it up but I don't.

--Graham



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