On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:55, Andrew Shamel wrote:

I'm looking for it to expand as its documentView expands.

The scrollviews are contained in a custom view called CardView, which is itself inside a scrollview which I am happy to have act in the usual fashion as the CardView gets taller and shorter as a result of its expanding and contracting contents. The custom scrollviews are arranged in a vertical stack within the CardView, and need to retain the same relative distance to one another as they expand and contract. I believe I have this relative change in position handled. It's finer control over the expansion of the scrollview itself that I'm after.

I have two configurations: one containing an NSTextView, and one containing an NSTableView.

For the one containing the textview, i want the scrollView to expand as the textView does (rather than letting the textView become hidden inside the scrollView), up until the textView has four lines of text at which point, normal scrolling behavior starts (i.e., the content which will not be in view is hidden and the scrollbars activate).

For the one containing the tableview, I'm looking for similar behavior, only replacing "four lines of text" with "four rows in the table."

I have managed to implement this behavior manually, based on checking the size of the content and the size of the scrollview each time the data is changed (i.e., implementing the textDidChange: delegate method, and monitoring the tableview's data source for new rows)

Ack! That seems far too complicated.

You can have your window controller (or whatever equivalent controller you're using) register via 'addObserver:selector:name:object:' to be notified when the NSTextView or NSTableView frame changes. (Note that you have to call 'setPostsFrameChangedNotifications:YES' on those views to be able to get these notifications.)

When you get a notification, compare the frame of the NSTextView or NSTableView with the bounds of the scroll view's clip view (the documentView frame and the clipView bounds are in the same coordinate system) to determine whether the clip view is too big, too small or just right.

If the clip view is the wrong size, you need to resize the view containing the scroll view (so that the things adjacent to the scroll view move out of its way) by the amount that the clip view is wrong. Autoresizing should then trickle down and produce the results you want.

There are a few things to be careful of:

-- resizing view while you're in the notification handler method may cause additional notifications, and you need to handle that

-- if you want the number of line/rows to change for other reasons (e.g. when you resize the window), you might have to observe the clip view frame too

-- if you have autohiding vertical scroll bars on you NSTextView or NSTableView, you may end up in a situation where the scroll view size change "bounces" up and down, and you need to handle that

HTH

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