Honestly guys, I have no devious motives here ! :-) I am not trying to take any shortcuts, I am just trying to learn the correct way to do things. There are programs such as Photoshop, OmniGraphSketcher that do similar things. For this UI, I am trying to follow precedence. I know the Omni code is completely custom drawn. I know Photoshop doesn't use cocoa as of CS4 so it must be custom as well.
Right now I have 4 inspectors, it may go to 5 but thats about it. I can easily put the disclosure triangle on the content view and be done with it. Unfortunately, I still don't understand what I need to do to make my original proposal work short of creating my own "Inspector Panel" class. Is it possible using NSPanel as it stands or do I need to do a bunch of custom code. By using a tab-less NSTabView, NSTabViewItems and a NSToolBar combined with the NSPanel, I get like 80% of the functionality of nice inspectors. I can make the inspector show/hide while keep the Panel toolbar visible and other cool stuff. I realize that last 20% can consume a lot more time then I spent on the first 80% and, as you say, it may not be worth it. I really appreciate the feedback! -Tony On Aug 2, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Aug 2, 2010, at 15:31, Tony Romano wrote: > >> Changing the argument to the correct flag gets me the button, however, >> setting the style doesn't have any effect. I moved the code to >> initWithContentRect: post the call to super, still no change. I >> introspected the view with F-Script and it has the bezel style I set but the >> window still draws the standard widget. Any other ideas? > > Yes -- don't do that. :) > > You're trying to take a shortcut by trying to get NSPanel to provide > inspector behavior that it doesn't have. This is not a great idea, not least > for the reason that it risks breaking when panels or the standard buttons are > implemented differently. > > How many of these inspectors do you have? Unless you have a *lot*, it > probably isn't worth spending your time to do it this way -- leave the panel > title bar alone and put your disclosure triangle at the top of the panel > content view. > > The behavior you're trying to imitate here (say, Photoshop's) is designed to > deal with having lots and lots of inspectors, has a fairly complex > implementation that doesn't entirely depend on standard NSWindow or NSPanel > behavior (AFAIK), and goes hand in hand with lots of other sophistication, > such as docking of palettes, draggable palette tabs, which are even more work > that might not be appropriate for your app. > > Why not do the "obvious" thing (if you haven't already), and "waste" the > height of the NSPanel title bar (put the disclosure triangle in the panel > content view), and see who complains about it -- and, far more importantly, > *what* they complain about. Maybe your real problem will be that you have too > many inspectors, not that the individual inspectors are too big vertically. > > It seems to me that (unless you've gone through all of these factors already) > you're indulging yourself in something similar to premature optimization. > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/tonyrom%40hotmail.com > > This email sent to tony...@hotmail.com > -Tony _______________________________________________ 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
