On 24/02/2009, at 9:50 PM, Ashish Tiwari wrote:
I am trying to get finder icon view like behavior in my
application. Using
IKImageBrowserView I am able to show icons for contents of a
directory but I
also need file/directory name below those icons. For this I am
trying to
insert NString into NSImage but text is now showing up in
IKImageBrowserView.
IKImageBrowserVIew has a much better way to handle this specific
labelling requirement.
The objects it stores should implement the informal protocol for -
imageTitle and -imageSubtitle, and the view will draw those strings
below the icons for you.
Here are the methods I have in a simple custom object I use - I think
I originally got this from one of Apple's samples though I'm afraid I
forgot exactly which one. It simply provides the browser with the path
to each image.
--Graham
//
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
// imageRepresentationType:
//
// Set up the image browser to use a path representation.
//
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (NSString*) imageRepresentationType
{
return IKImageBrowserPathRepresentationType;
}
//
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
// imageRepresentation:
//
// Give the path representation to the image browser.
//
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (id) imageRepresentation
{
return mPath;
}
//
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
// imageUID:
//
// Use the absolute file path as the identifier.
//
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (NSString*) imageUID
{
return mPath;
}
- (NSString*) imageTitle
{
return [[mPath lastPathComponent] stringByDeletingPathExtension];
}
- (NSString*) imageSubtitle
{
NSDictionary* attribs = [self imageAttributes];
int w, h;
w = [[attribs objectForKey:@"PixelWidth"] intValue];
h = [[attribs objectForKey:@"PixelHeight"] intValue];
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d x %d", w, h];
}
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