Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-02 Thread Sean McBride
On 3/1/09 7:05 PM, Gustavo Pizano said: >Hello, I have an application that has a HUD panel, now, when I click >the button to show the panel the HUD panel simply appears, I was >wondering if there is a way to make it appear in a diferent way, kinda >the way Aperture, or iPhoto shows such panels, th

Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-02 Thread douglas welton
Gustavo, The best thing would probably be for you to read the documentation on NSWindowController and NSWindow, then decide - based on your code's functionality - where to make the best additions to your code to accomplish your goal. regards, douglas On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Gustavo

Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-02 Thread Gustavo Adolfo Pizano
Ok i think I messed up a little. the PanelShipController class is a sub class of NSWindowController, which is the one in charge of loading the Panel. As fas as I have read thas the best way to do it. Now, if i understand good, I have to create my custom class which inherits from NSPanel, and i

Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-02 Thread Gustavo Adolfo Pizano
Douglas hi, so I should overwrite some methods that allow me to manipulate the HUD panel in the PanelShioController class?, which is a subclas of NSWindowController? if yes, then I will check out which methods apply for my requirments, Thanks Gus On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM, douglas welton

Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-02 Thread douglas welton
Gustavo, Yes - a HUD Panel is just a subclass of NSWindow. regards, douglas On Mar 2, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Gustavo Adolfo Pizano wrote: Douglas hello. will this apply also to the HUD Panel?, I was thinking something similar but couldn't see a way to achieve it. inside the panel as I said,

Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-02 Thread Gustavo Adolfo Pizano
Douglas hello. will this apply also to the HUD Panel?, I was thinking something similar but couldn't see a way to achieve it. inside the panel as I said, I have my custom view, but I dunno how to play with it to make it appear in a "fancy" way. I will look at the example once i get home. thank

Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-02 Thread Gustavo Adolfo Pizano
Hello Fabian. I just setup the HUD panel in IB, and inside the panel my CustomView which has some layers . Teh HUD panel its controler by a ShipControllerPanel class, which has the init method that initialize the panel from the NSBundle, and load it to memory just once. when you tell me subclass

Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-01 Thread douglas welton
Gustavo, Have you looked at the documentation for NSViewAnimation? This will class gives you a number of options for manipulating several attributes (frames, alpha, etc) for windows/views. You might want to also take a look at the Reducer example, in particular the Animated TabView Class

Re: Animate the way a HUD panel appears.

2009-03-01 Thread slasktrattena...@gmail.com
Subclass it, override orderBack and orderOut, do some funky stuff... what did you try? Fabian On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: > Hello, I have an application that has a HUD panel, now, when I click the > button to show the panel the HUD panel simply appears, I was wondering