Implementing an iChat-like view
Implementing an iChat-like view
- Subject: Implementing an iChat-like view
- From: René Puls <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:21:41 +0200
Hello,
how would you implement a chat-style view like the one in iChat?
Would you do this...
(1) with a single NSView or NSControl subclass (and which of the two)?
For example, just draw whatever is necessary in drawRect:?
(2) with an NSView and custom NSCells that draw the "chat bubbles"?
(3) with something completely different? I don't want to use WebKit for
this, because I'd like my chat bubbles to have certain user-clickable
controls, which would probably be ugly to implement with a WebView.
(I am not really implementing a chat application, but this seems to be
a good and simple example. The important thing is that there can be
lots of these chat bubbles, so it would have to be fast.)
Kind regards,
Reni Puls
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