Re: Repositioning a content view w/in a window
Re: Repositioning a content view w/in a window
- Subject: Re: Repositioning a content view w/in a window
- From: "Michael Ash" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:50:42 -0400
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
> Well, it's the usual approach. The content view is something that the window
> owns to act purely as the root of its view hierarchy - there's usually not
> much to be gained by fiddling with it or putting your own content there
> directly. For example, when you drag a custom view (or any view) into a
> window in Interface Builder, it's actually adding it as a subview of the
> implied contentView, which you never see in IB.
In fact I would go so far as to say that if you ever use
-setContentView:, you are very probably doing it wrong. It is, for the
most part, not a very useful call, and you can accomplish the same
thing more naturally, easily, and flexibly by adding the view as a
subview to the content view instead.
Mike
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