On 20 Jul 2011, at 2:30 PM, Gabriel Roth wrote:
> Subject: Smooth resizing of a text field
> Date: July 20, 2011 3:30:56 PM EDT
> To: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
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> My application displays a non-editable text string in an NSTextField. When
> the user adjusts a slider, the
Don't fiddle with the individual properties of the subviews in the window.
Rather, just apply a scaling transform to the entire window, and let Core
Graphics take care of the rest. i.e. do what you really mean to do: scale
everything.
Unfortunately I've just upgraded to Lion ( :-) ) so I'm now bus
On 20 Jul 2011, at 2:30 PM, Gabriel Roth wrote:
> My application displays a non-editable text string in an NSTextField. When
> the user adjusts a slider, the entire window and all its subviews—including
> this text field—should resize smoothly.
>
> My first thought was to bind the font size of t
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Fritz Anderson
wrote:
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> A couple of minutes' search turned up drawCenteredShrinkingToFitInRect: in
> NSAttributedString-OAExtensions. I don't think it's on-point for what you're
> looking for, but you may be able to derive a technique.
To report back: With som
On 20 Jul 2011, at 2:30 PM, Gabriel Roth wrote:
> My next thought was to convert the text field into an image (at some large
> font size) and then scale the image up and down as the slider moves. But I
> can't figure out how to create an image from a text field (or otherwise
> generate an image of
My application displays a non-editable text string in an NSTextField. When
the user adjusts a slider, the entire window and all its subviews—including
this text field—should resize smoothly.
My first thought was to bind the font size of the text field to a property
and have that property set to a
