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Re: How can I hide an NSView properly?
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Re: How can I hide an NSView properly?


  • Subject: Re: How can I hide an NSView properly?
  • From: Christophe Dore <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:39:13 +0100

Absolutly avoid :

[superView addSubView:[indicator release]];

as the release will occur ***before*** the object being added, thus retained by the superview.

this means that if prior to the line, the retain count of 'indicator' is 1, you add a freed object to the superview. App crashing will certainly comme soon.

[superView addSubView:indicator];
[indicator release];

may look longer, less fun because less obfuscated, but it will work.


Gerben Wierda wrote:

I have some NSViews (in fact NSProgressIndicators) that I want to hide/unhide as they must temporarily take the place of other display items. What I came up with is this:

In owner of nib file init:
Store the superview
[retain the indicator]

In owner of nib file dealloc:
[release the indicator]

For hiding (this releases the indicator, hence the init retains):
[[indicator retain] removeFromSuperviewWithoutNeedingDisplay]

For unhiding (this retains the indicators):
[superView addSubView:[indicator release]];

This will probably work, but I think this fails when the superview is resized when the indicator is hidden. So this method will probably mean that I have to give up on a resizable window (or do a lot of calculation).

I haven't been able to find hide/unhide methods for views (or even controls). Am I overlooking something?

Thanks,

G
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