On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
> Perhaps it might be useful if you were to show some code? At least show
> where you're using a transform and what transform you're using. What does
> "apply a scaling transform to a page view" mean?
>
> A transform is just a way of affecting subsequent drawing in a graphics
> context (in particular, the current context). It's useful, for example, in
> an NSView's drawRect: implementation to let the coordinate system do the
> calculation for you so you don't have to do it. Drawing a rotated rectangle
> would involve all sorts of nasty trig, so instead you rotate the coordinate
> system and draw a normal rectangle, etc.
I decided to simplify and created a project just for exploring transforms. Long
story short, I still find them extremely counter intuitive. After futzing with
transforms for a few hours, I decided to try a different tack. TI ended up
writing a base class (see below) for all my apps views which does exactly what
I want re scaling "page" views. When I call the "setScale" method, it scales
both the origin and size of a view and calls [self setFrame] which propagates
"setScale" to all the subviews. How would I get the same sort of behavior using
transforms?
@interface UIView : NSView
{
float currentScale;
NSRect fullFrame,
currentFrame;
}
- (void) setScale:(NSNumber *) inScale;
@end
@implementation UIView
- (id) initWithFrame:(NSRect) inFrame
{
self = [super initWithFrame: inFrame];
{
fullFrame = inFrame;
currentFrame = inFrame;
currentScale = 1;
[self setAutoresizesSubviews: NO];
}
return self;
}
- (void) setScale:(NSNumber *) inScale
{
currentScale = [inScale floatValue];
NSRect newFrame = NSMakeRect(currentFrame.origin.x *
currentScale,
currentFrame.origin.y * currentScale,
currentFrame.size.width * currentScale,
currentFrame.size.height *
currentScale);
[self setFrame: newFrame];
}
- (void) setFrame:(NSRect) inFrame
{
[super setFrame: inFrame];
currentFrame = inFrame;
[[self subviews] makeObjectsPerformSelector: @selector(setScale:)
withObject: [NSNumber numberWithFloat: currentScale]];
}
@end
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