Re: Blue lines (nice example app including quartz compositions)

2008-07-15 Thread Patrick Mau
Andrew Thompson wrote: > How do Interface Builder and Quartz Composer draw the blue line connections > from object to object? > I have been looking through the APIs, but I can't find anything that looks > right. > > I thought of just drawing my own line on a custom view (shouldn't be that > hard),

[OT] XML GUI editor [was Re: Blue lines]

2008-07-15 Thread Gary L. Wade
>On 15-Jul-08, at 5:36 PM, Scott Anguish wrote: > >Please, please an XML GUI editor. :-) Then the HTML version can be >done via an XML schema, and users needing an XML editor will be all >good. Hmmm...veering off-topic and divergent from the original question, but how would you personally exp

Re: Blue lines

2008-07-15 Thread Scott Anguish
On 15-Jul-08, at 8:31 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote: How do Interface Builder and Quartz Composer draw the blue line connections from object to object? I have been looking through the APIs, but I can't find anything that looks right. I can't say how either app is written.. if you're drawing

Re: Blue lines

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Titus
Interface Builder actually makes a couple of windows to do that. One wide window for the horizontal part of the line, and another tall and thin window for the vertical part. The positions of the windows change as your mouse moves, and they have simple views inside that draw basically just b

Re: Blue lines

2008-07-15 Thread j o a r
On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote: How do Interface Builder and Quartz Composer draw the blue line connections from object to object? I have been looking through the APIs, but I can't find anything that looks right. I thought of just drawing my own line on a custom view (

Re: Blue lines

2008-07-15 Thread Shawn Erickson
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Andrew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought of just drawing my own line on a custom view (shouldn't be that > hard), but interface builder manages to do it between objects that aren't > connected by ANY view, and I am not sure how to do that. > > I am tr

Blue lines

2008-07-15 Thread Andrew Thompson
How do Interface Builder and Quartz Composer draw the blue line connections from object to object? I have been looking through the APIs, but I can't find anything that looks right. I thought of just drawing my own line on a custom view (shouldn't be that hard), but interface builder manages to do