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Re: Leopard problem: rotating buttons
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Re: Leopard problem: rotating buttons


  • Subject: Re: Leopard problem: rotating buttons
  • From: Daniel Griscom <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 10:49:41 -0500

At 9:51 AM -0500 11/4/07, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Bill Dudney wrote:

I went ahead and built a really simple app that has 2 buttons, one is layer backed (labeled beeper) the other is not (labeled rotate). When you hit rotate the beeper button rotates an additional 15 degrees from where it is, when you hit beeper it beeps.

The UI is ugly but its not mean to be an example of nice UI :)

http://bill.dudney.net/roller/objc/resource/LayerBackedControls.zip

Is the url to grab the project.

It was very kind of you, Bill, to whip up that demo, but...

I don't know if anyone else is seeing this, but there's a bug in how the rotated button is drawn whenever its angle is some multiple of 90 degrees:

Bingo!!

270: text normal, button is a combination of the two above - orientation is off by 90 degrees (i.e., it's horizontal when it should be vertical, and its extent is only as wide as the button is tall. No rounded corners, just top and bottom borders.

I'm rotating by -90 degrees, but not surprisingly see the same thing.

all other angles are correct, and this pattern repeats as you cycle.

This observation led to a successful workaround: instead of setting the rotation to -90, set it to -89.999995 (the closest value to -90 that still dodges the bug). The results:


- Everything looks fine under Tiger

- Everything looks fine under Leopard, EXCEPT that the text within the default button is blurry when not clicked. Very strange, but tolerable when compared to the alternatives.


Raffael: have you reported this bug? If not, I will.


I'm going to burn a tech support incident to see if there's a better workaround. I'll let you all know what I find out.



Thanks for the help, Dan

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Daniel T. Griscom             email@hidden
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