Re: Another IKImageView question: Copying a region
Re: Another IKImageView question: Copying a region
- Subject: Re: Another IKImageView question: Copying a region
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:54:47 -0700
Please don't cross-post. You've already posted this to quartz-dev.
--Kyle Sluder [not the moderator]
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Brian Postow <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm not sure if ImageKit is more correctly a cocoa thing, or a Quartz thing, so I'm asking this in both places. Sorry for the duplicate, If the question is inappropriate in one or the other list let me know and, well I guess I can't delete from a mailing, list, but I won't send more ImageKit questions I guess...
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> I'm trying to use the select and copy feature of the IKImageView. If all you want to do is have an app with an image, select a portion and copy it to the clipboard, it's easy. You set the copy menu pick to the first responder's copy:(id) method and magically everything works.
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> However, if you want something more complicated, like you want to copy as part of some other operation, I can't seem to find the method to do this.
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> IKImageView doesn't seem to have a copy method, it doesn't seem to have a method that will even tell you the selected rectangle!
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> I have gone through Hillegass' book, so I understand how the clipboard works, just not how to get the portion of the image out of the view...
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> Now, I'm starting to think that I made a mistake in basing my project on IKImageView, but it's what Preview is built on (or so I've read), so I figured it had to be stable... and anyway, now it's too late, I'm too deep in this to start over...
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> So, other than not using IKImageView, any suggestions on how to copy the select region to the clipboard manually?
>
> Brian Postow
> Senior Software Engineer
> Acordex Imaging Systems
>
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