Re: NSImageView sucks?
Re: NSImageView sucks?
- Subject: Re: NSImageView sucks?
- From: Steve Gehrman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 04:11:50 -0800
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:48 AM, Sailesh Agrawal wrote:
Yea, you'll have to subclass it to get the added functionality. I'm
going to be doing the same (adding a subclass with
drag/drop/copy/paste support) very soon. When I'm done I'll added to
cocodev.com. If you get something working I encourage you to
contribute too.
Thanks for the info. Just wanted some confirmation before I wrote
another rant.
APPLE - Either open source Cocoa so we can all collectively add this
basic functionality, or hire more programmers. It's really sad that
you can't even copy, paste or drag and drop to such a fundamental view.
Sure it's not that hard to add, but why? It would take an Apple
Engineer one day to make NSImageView do everything anyone would ever
want. I've got much more important features to add than getting an
image to respond to a copy/paste.
Am I the only one who is surprised by this? I still remember the pitch
jobs gave at WWDC many years ago. "Cocoa is like starting on the 27th
floor...."
An image view that only draws an image in a window isn't that
impressive, especially knowing that it's not that difficult to make it
full featured.
there's already some code here:
http://cocoadev.com/index.pl?FakeImageView
It's sad that we have to resort to completely rewriting Cocoa objects
from scratch just to get the basics.
On Monday, Feb 3, 2003, at 01:24 Canada/Eastern, Steve Gehrman wrote:
Am I missing something or does NSImageView really suck?
I'm trying to enable copy/paste drag/drop (both source and
destination), but none of this stuff works by default. Do I have to
subclass the crap out of it to bring it to a usable state? I set the
setEditable:YES and that allows a drag and drop of an image file on
top
of the imageView, but I can't seem to drag and drop another image from
another application. (using NSTIFFPboardType)
This seems crazy, You would think that a basic NSImageView would do
all
of this. Am I'm retarded or does this really suck this bad?
-steve
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