Hi Tom, I think the problem here is that if you have view A containing textField, and textField is centered in A, there's no constraint expressing anything about A's height. A can go to zero height and still have the textField centered within it.
If you added something giving a height (or fastened the edges of A to the textField), that'd probably do it. -ken On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Tom Harrington <atomicb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to use NSStackView in what should be the most basic way > possible. I create the stack view and add two subviews. But only one of > them is ever visible. > > I'm creating the stack view in code (in my app delegate, for purposes of a > test project): > > NSStackView *stackView = [NSStackView stackViewWithViews:@ > [self.subview1, > self.subview2]]; > > stackView.orientation = NSUserInterfaceLayoutOrientationVertical; > > stackView.alignment = NSLayoutAttributeCenterX; > > stackView.spacing = 0; > > [self.window.contentView addSubview:stackView]; > > [self.window.contentView addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint > constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"H:|-(50)-[stackView]-(50)-|" > > > options:0 > > > metrics:nil > > > views:NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(stackView)]]; > > [self.window.contentView addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint > constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|-(50)-[stackView]-(50)-|" > > > options:0 > > > metrics:nil > > > views:NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(stackView)]]; > > The two subviews subview1 and subview2 are just plain NSViews, each with an > NSTextField label subview constrained to be in the center. > > At run time, only one subview is visible-- the last one in the array. It's > resized to fill the entire stack view. If I resize the window, the stack > view and the one visible subview also resize, but no window size ever gets > both subviews showing. > > Obviously I'm missing something basic about stack views, but I don't know > what. I've been looking at Apple's InfoBarStackView demo app but haven't > worked out which detail it has that I don't (Apple's demo: > > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/InfoBarStackView/Introduction/Intro.html > ) > > -- > Tom Harrington > atomicb...@gmail.com > AIM: atomicbird1 > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com > > This email sent to kenfe...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com