On Jun 27, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:
On Jun 27, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Birns wrote:
Hi Larry,
Using kHIViewWindowContentID didn't work,
What do you mean, it didn't work? It definitely works to get the
content view.
Yes, but when I draw to it, I don't see it. Yes, that's probably
because I'm not sure what I'm doing. But when I draw to the HiView
that's in the nib, it shows.
There's almost certainly a good reason why this isn't showing, but I
remembered that one reason I made the HiView in the first place is
that it placed the graphics where I want them on the window.
but to make a long story short, I have a solution.
I need a rectangle inside the window to draw on. The window
itself includes the title bar and the bit around the bottom where
the edge isn't square. So I made an HiView that sits inside the
window, and this works nicely: there's a window which has the
metal finish with the bitmap inside it. In the inspector, when i
look at the HiView, x is set to 0 and y is set to 20.
Which y? You really need to be more specific when you post. Vague
statements are rarely useful.
Fair enough, though I've only seen one in the inspector. to find it,
I click on the HiView, and then in the inspector, I choose Size at
the top, and then Layout Rect, and then bottom/left, width/height,
and the bottom left are the y and x. Is there another X and Y in the
inspector?
Perhaps this explains the y offset. The width and height seem to
explain the top margin: the width is the same as the window, and
the height is 20 less than the enclosing window. Apparently y in
the inspector starts at the bottom, which seems to be true for
some things but not others.
IIRC you can set whether it should be from the top or the bottom.
How?
Then when I resize, (which I always do after creating it), it
maintains the 'y' and the height difference in absolute pixels.
Solution: Find out the difference in size of the view and the
window, and resize accordingly
The goal ws to get rid of the magic number 20 in my code, and this
did it: the heightDiff is 20.
This doesn't really seem like a good solution IMO, because, you
don't really understand what you've solved, you just found
something that works.
Criticism taken although I *think* I understand what I've solved: I
need the HiView for a variety of reasons, and that view is a
different size than the window. I need the window to be an
appropriate size so that the HiView is the size I need for the image
to have the original size and aspect ratio.
I'm really trying to not be vague. I appreciate your patience and
coaxing.
--Daniel
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