On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Eric Gorr <mail...@ericgorr.net> wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Benjamin Stiglitz wrote: > >>> I have a need to use poseAsClass, but I see that it has been deprecated >>> in 10.5 and won't be available for 64-bit applications. >>> >>> So, is there a replacement? >> >> WAYTTD: What are you trying to do? Maybe you don’t need to pose. > > Well, sadly, I am pretty sure I do...at least for now. > > Although, this bug is not quite confirmed yet, but I suspect I know what the > problem is. > > I am working on a Carbon -> Cocoa conversion. In the carbon part, the cursor > is being set to a 64x64 cursor constantly - via NSCursor set. The problem > comes when I move the cursor over a cocoa view which I believe, by default, > changing the cursor to what it wants - which I believe is a 32x32 cursor. > > So, in the constantly fighting over what the cursor should be, there is some > weird cursor behavior...it flickers - moves quickly to a nearby location and > then back again. > > I figure I could write my own NSCursor subclass, pose it as the normal > NSCursor class and make sure that it is always trying to set cursor in the > same way in every situation. > > Yes, I know, this isn't a good situation any way you slice it...but I need a > quick fix and poseAsClass: seems to be the best option - assuming the bug is > what I think it is.
Sounds to me like what you actually need is for your views to stop fighting over the cursor. At most, a subclass of whatever Cocoa view is screwing with your cursor might be called for. Posing as NSCursor for this is like swatting a fly with a grenade. Mike _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
