Re: Drag image of NSView
Re: Drag image of NSView
- Subject: Re: Drag image of NSView
- From: John Pannell <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:35:21 -0600
Hi Ken-
The example code (assuming you pulled this from the NSView docs) only
addresses the case where the object being dragged is an actual image
(i.e. the contents of an NSImageView or cell). There is no method on
NSView that will return an image looking like the view.
Actually, if you are Tiger only, NSView has a method
(bitmapImageRepForCachingDisplayInRect:) that would fit the bill -
you could pass the rect for the whole view and then construct an
NSImage from the NSBitmapImageRep returned.
Note that this would send the message that the user is dragging the
entire view somewhere, which is not appropriate for frequently used
compound views (NSMatrix, NSTableView, etc.) A more common pattern
would have users dragging the data represented by a cell of one of
these views, and cells with images have methods to pull the image
from them. Not knowing your specific situation, I can't comment much
further.
I just got done implementing drag and drop in my app, feel free to
mail off-list with more specifics if you would like and I'd be happy
to assist if I can.
HTH!
John
John Pannell
Positive Spin Media
http://www.positivespinmedia.com
On Oct 14, 2005, at 8:59 PM, Ken Tozier wrote:
I'm sure this is an easy one but the Apple Drag and Drop info
located here "http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/
Conceptual/DragandDrop/index.html?http://developer.apple.com/
documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/DragandDrop/DragandDrop.html" gives
no indication of how to actually create a transparent snapshot of
an NSView for use as a drag image.
The documentation for NSView's
dragImage:at:offset:event:pasteboard:source:slideBack: method shows
the following snippet for getting the image
[pboard setData:[[self image] TIFFRepresentation]
forType:NSTIFFPboardType];
[self dragImage:[self image] at:[self imageLocation]
offset:dragOffset event:theEvent pasteboard:pboard source:self
slideBack:YES];
Problem is though, NSView has no "image" method. Nor do it's
superclasses "NSResponder" or "NSObject" so where are they getting
the image? Is this some deprecated method of NSView?
Anyway. If there is some better documentation around or if someone
could provide a simple code snippet of how to get a transparent
image of a view for a drag icon, it would be much appreciated
Thanks for any help
Ken
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