On Aug 20, 2010, at 06:46, Brian Postow wrote: > If I don't want to be using NSImageView, what DO I want to be using? I > started out trying to use IKImageView, but that is swatting a fly with a > bazooka. It takes like 2 seconds to draw the image because its doing lots of > thumbnailing and stuff that I don't need... is there another kind of > imageview I should use?
Given a scroll view architecture, your document view can be a single view, or the parent of an entire sub-hierarchy of views (Kyle's suggestion). If you're going to use a sub-hierarchy, then using a NSImageView within it is fine and probably convenient. (It doesn't do anything that you can't do yourself in a couple of lines of code, but a saving is a saving.) If you're going to use a single view, then you'd use a custom NSView, and draw all of the pieces in the right order within its 'drawRect:'. The part of the view that's occupied by the image would be drawn with [NSImage drawInRect...], for example. You *could* make your custom view a subclass of NSImageView, but in this case there's no point that I can see. Unlike IKImageView, NSImageView doesn't encapsulate a lot of behavior. (Offhand, all I can think of is: scaling, optionally drawing a border, and drawing a background when there's no image.) It's *mostly* a convenience for adding images to XIBs in IB without having to write any code, but with your scaling requirements you're already committed to writing UI glue code. So I'm suggesting you shouldn't feel obliged to use NSImageView at all, unless it genuinely saves you some effort. > Ok,. Since the NSImageView wants to always center the image in the bounds > rect, that should make the translation (moving the origin) not too hard, yes? Yes, though I'd say it differently. What's important is the size of the document view, and where its frame is positioned within the bounds rect of the content (clip) view. That's because zooming has an impact on the limits and scroll position of the scroll bars. _______________________________________________ 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
