Re: The best way to hide views
Re: The best way to hide views
- Subject: Re: The best way to hide views
- From: Wesley Miaw <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 20:00:34 -0500
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Well, in my case, I have a situation where a single view is used to
display various bodies of text. One of these text bodies is an index,
and when that is shown, I want a second NSScrollView to appear that
contains the content that the index points to. When other text bodies
are shown (e.g. glossaries) I do not want the content shown. So I hide
the second NSScrollView and resize the first NSScrollView (containing
the glossary).
1) I don't want to disable the second view because that eats up
valuable real estate.
2) It doesn't make sense to put either the index or the content into a
drawer--they are not formatted in a way that would make sense.
3) These different bodies of text already show up under a larger
NSTabViewItem that groups the subject material of this text into a
single tab.
4) I want to reuse the single layout, instead of duplicating work (from
an objects point of view).
I suppose a collapsed split view might work, but I don't want users to
have a "split view" where there really isn't one (i.e. the text shown
is not the index and content). It would certainly be weird to see a
split view marker that you can't open up.
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 05:21 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
I know that hiding views has been discussed may times in this forum.
Why are people wanting to hide views rather than disabling them or
putting them in collapsed split views or tab views or drawers ?
What are the issues ?
Why is programatically hiding a view considered better than using one
of the built-in almost no code required techniques ?
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Wesley Miaw, Wesley Miaw Consulting
http://www.wesman.net/
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