Clearly Quincey can read minds. He is exactly right about the wrongness of my thinking. I hope he doesn’t read my mind too much longer, or he will get horribly tangled in dusty cob webs of ill-conceived good intentions!
Tom Wetmore > On Jul 20, 2015, at 5:15 PM, Quincey Morris > <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2015, at 13:50 , Gary L. Wade <garyw...@desisoftsystems.com> wrote: >> >> Depending on your design, why not just use an NSSplitView to do all that for >> you? > > Um, before we go API-hog-wild here, we need to rule out the possibility that > the OP is just Doing It Wrong™. Because I’m 99.9999% certain that the OP is > just Doing It Wrong™: > >> On Jul 20, 2015, at 13:30 , Thomas Wetmore <t...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> >>> I would really like to be able to do resizing using a mouse event loop, but >>> have the layout constraints somehow involved. Reading through references >>> for NSView I don’t see how to do this. I guess I am looking for a way from >>> within the event loop to be able to check whether a proposed new frame >>> rectangle for the view obeys the view’s size constraints. > > So, he’s resizing the view using setFrame**, which is to say he’s not really > using Auto Layout at all. What he apparently wants is *manual* resizing and > repositioning with automatic application of *manual* size limits. This is > functionality that doesn’t exist in Cocoa, and it’s certainly not Auto Layout. > > > ** Probably. There’s still about 0.0001% of doubt about it. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
