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- From: Paul Fox <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:40:18 +0100
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Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #934 - 15 msgs
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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:05:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 2 #933 - 14 msgs
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From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
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To: Cocoa-Dev Mail <email@hidden>
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on 02-07-12 4:16 PM, Paul Fox at email@hidden wrote:
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>> The method you're looking for is -[NSCell setScrollable:]. Just
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>> call it on the NSTextField's cell and you should be set.
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>> --
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>> Brian Webster
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>> http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster
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> I'm a little confused...maybe someone can help.
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The essential nature of Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks -- the soul of
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this thing we all love so much -- is attempting to seduce you, but you are
Thanks Bill - your explanation was very useful. Hopefully to others too.
It wasnt that I was trying to avoid the object hierarchy in any way,
just that so far, I have been successful in my method browsing to find
what I wanted. In this case, I was initially unsuccessful. But with
your help - I got it in the end.
Curiously, initially, I couldnt get the setScrollable property to
work (I was setting it to true) - because I thought this method
meant 'you want to scroll e.g. with a scrollbar'. Had me baffled
for ages til I realised what it meant was 'do you want
to scroll sideways'.
I am beginning to like the Apple docs - now I know where things are,
but it is oh-so painful not including the superclass and contained-class
methods in the object man page.
I dont know if anyone has seen the Motif man pages, but a similar
problem persists. 90% of the man page describes the object/widget
in detail, and then subsequent sections (briefly) describe the
superclass methods. So you can see all you need at a glance. If you
want to know more, then you know where to go to get it. This seems
a good solution of having everything relevant on a single page but
with good links to the fuller meat.
I wish Apple docs did this (if they were machine generated, then it
would be easy) and I am sure someone has maybe done this with the interactive
class browsers.
Anyway - thanks again, I am back on track.
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