Re: Need Help Please....Truncation Mode for Window Title
Re: Need Help Please....Truncation Mode for Window Title
- Subject: Re: Need Help Please....Truncation Mode for Window Title
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:17:19 -0600
On Mar 1, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Joachim Deelen wrote:
I almost thought that I have to do it manually. Im going to use
"TruncateThemeText" together with HIThemeGetWindowShape to truncate
the title and listen for Window-Resize Notifications, to
recalculate the truncation.
I can't find "HIThemeGetWindowShape" I thing I have to use
"GetWindowBounds" from the Window Manager and provide
"kWindowTitleTextRgn" as the Region-Constant to get the Bounding-
Rectangle of the Title-Text. Is this correct?
Calling GetWindowBounds with the appropriate region constant should
work.
I'm very new to Mac OS X Programming and as a newbie, I started
with Cocoa and left the Carbon thing aside so far. But as deeper I
get into all these APIs I notice, that some things can't be done
with Cocoa alone. Sometimes you have to use Carbon. But I always
try to use as much Cocoa as possible!
Why is this so? Is Cocoa just an Objective-C Wrapper around Carbon?
I always thought they're at the same API Level.
I think some things in Cocoa are indeed wrappers around Carbon.
Others (perhaps the majority?) are not.
I too try to look for an elegant Cocoa-only solution first. But
there are times when one needs to call down into the Carbon APIs, and
doing so is a-ok. I currently step into Carbon for setting the UI
Mode, handling speech recognition (the Cocoa wrapper to speech didn't
meet my needs) and also handling Ink.
I do suggest filing enhancement requests. If enough folks need a
nice Cocoa API to access a technology (e.g. the recent QTKit to
access QuickTime), I think Apple would consider adding it.
In your specific case, I believe that others would also benefit from
a specific API to set the truncation mode of a window's title.
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