Re: SOLUTION Placement of window using interface builder on different size displays
Re: SOLUTION Placement of window using interface builder on different size displays
- Subject: Re: SOLUTION Placement of window using interface builder on different size displays
- From: Development <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:19:16 -0400
On Jun 28, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Development wrote:
Surely this is a simple way of doing this? (Yes, and don't call me
Shirley).
We are creating a document based application that has various
inspector panels that need to come up in exact position when the
user first starts the application. Most importantly, there are
several windows that hug the top and side edges of the screen. I
created the windows using Interface Builder (IB), set their initial
location, and it worked fine for my screen. Then we gave it to some
testers who are running on something other then an iMac (with
different screen dimensions), and the inspector windows appeared all
over the place.
Apparently, the position of the window, that is set using Interface
Builder is based on having the origin a the bottom left corner (ie.
Quartz style). What we want to do is set the initial position of
the window based on a top left (is. flipped) coordinate systems!
This puzzled me since there does not seem to be any way to tell the
Window manager to do this. There is no setting in the IB Inspector,
nor is there any methods to override.
I am betting this is something very simple, but I have never had to
require where a window come up before. Either the window is a
document window, and is tiled, or it is a dialog window, and needs
to be centered on the screen or document, or it does not matter.
Yes, I know I could at write code to programatically move the window
is the current position at initial startup, however this would
require hard coding each window to do this.
Help?!?
Steve Sheets
Thanks to Benajmin Dobson, I have the answer. Ben wrote to me:
"In the Size Inspector for the window, under Initial Position, click
on the little grey triangles on the top and the left. I think that
does it.
http://www.quicksnapper.com/sabrelight/image/initial-position";
He was exactly right. I had no idea that those grey triangle tabs were
clickable.
Solution Found!
Thanks,
Steve Sheets
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