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Subject: FW: Creating NSScrollView in IB?
From: Kevin Murray <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:43:39 -0700

> I've been poking around, looking at prototyping some stuff for a new
> project I'm working on, and I seem to be stuck at the starting gate...
>
> I want something that behaves (for lack of a better example) like
> MSOutlook in that it is a list of items (mail), where some items (messages
> that have been read) are composed of a single line, but other items
> (unread messages) have that information plus a preview that can have a
> variable height. I'm envisioning a NSScrollView that contains a custom
> view that can manage sub-views to construct a list that has variable
> height cells (basically an NSMatrix that supports heterogeneous cells).
>
> This is all well and good, except that I cannot figure out how to create a
> NSScrollView in Interface Builder. This seems like it should be an obvious
> and simple task, but there is no NSScrollView control in the Views
> Palette. I'm trying to figure out: 1. if there is a better way of
> developing this whole idea, 2. A way to create a useful NSScrollView with
> a subview in IB (the Sketch sample program has one), or 3. if I should
> give up and try to build the whole thing dynamically in code.
>
> IB seems to have a lot of hidden features accessible through non-obvious
> interface or magic modifier keys - am I missing one of these that will
> allow me to do something like create a NSTextView then delete the
> NSTextView leaving the NSScrollView behind, or create an NSTextView, but
> change the type of the embedded NSTextView to something else?
>
> -kevin

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