RE: How can I implement labels without the overhead of an NSTextField?
RE: How can I implement labels without the overhead of an NSTextField?
- Subject: RE: How can I implement labels without the overhead of an NSTextField?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:37:37 +0000
Okay, I will do as you wish. I picked up a copy of "Cocoa Programming" from the bookstore and am reading chapter 14 and others. I will report back when I have either found a way to solve my problem or given up.
> > > Presumably you are simply using [string drawAtPoint:withAttributes:] or
> > > [string drawInRect:withAttributes:] or the equivalent methods in
> > > NSAttributedString. The AppKit string drawing methods are not intended
> > > for drawing and redrawing lots of strings. They are fine for a few
> > > static labels, but not for a huge number of labels that have to be
> > > redrawn a lot.
> >
> > What are you talking about? I was just dragging NSTextViews from
> > the palette. The ones that looks like labels. Hence my complaint
> > that all of the labels were NSTextViews.
>
> Well, that may be your problem. NSTextViews are fairly expensive objects.
> You want to use NSTextFields (although maybe you are doing that already and
> just don't know the difference?).
>
> > I am not interested in how they work, I just want to get them
> > going as soon as possible.
>
> You will get nowhere fast on this list with that attitude.
>
> Jonathan
>
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