Re: Are views active or inactive?
Re: Are views active or inactive?
- Subject: Re: Are views active or inactive?
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:06:58 -0500
Rick Mann wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2009, at 19:51:03, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> I'm listening for that notification. Sure is a clunky way to do things. I've never used a view framework that didn't tell views when they became active/inactive.
>>
>> Views don't become (in)active, windows do. Since there are plenty of
>> things that might be interested in that (Window menu, controllers,
>> views∑), it's done as a notification so all interested parties can
>> listen for it.
>
> I'm not against the notification, I just think NSView should have an active property. Views do become inactive (look at any well-designed control).
Did you happen to have an 'a-ha' moment when you typed that sentence? "Views" don't generally have an active/inactive state. Controls, which are a special case of view, do. So have you considered making your custom view an NSControl instead of a simple NSView?
That's the thing, you see. "Inactive" means the user can't interact with it. But the user can't interact with a view that's not a control anyway, so the state has no meaning._______________________________________________
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