> On Apr 22, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote: >> >> I really can’t understand why it was ever defined to be bottom left, does >> anyone know why? > > Normal Cartesian coordinates. (I agree the other way made sense, measuring > from the menu bar…)
This dates back to PostScript, which has always put (0,0) at the bottom left of the page. (Remember that NeXT started out using Display PostScript as its rendering engine.) —Jens _______________________________________________ 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
