Hi Trygve, I had not thought of that. Does setting the alpha to 0 hide apply it to the entire window then and not just the contentView ?
Thanks -Mic 2009/5/13 Trygve Inda <cocoa...@xericdesign.com>: >> Hi, >> >> I'm working on an application that when first started you are >> presented with a small window showing a number of options. When any of >> these options are chosen, the window fades out the contentView whilst >> at the same time replacing it with and fading in the new view. The >> window also resizes to accommodate the new view. This is all achieved >> using NSViewAnimation and works and looks great. However, I have one >> small issue. >> >> What I'd like is for the resulting window (new size, containing new >> view) to be centered on the screen, in the sameplace as if I'd called >> [window center] on it. >> >> I currently have it centering using some calculations based on screen >> width/height and window width/height etc but this results in it being >> actually centered on the screen, not centered in which the above call >> does (They are different, honest, check them out). >> >> What I thought about doing was creating a transparent window using a >> border less mask, the same size as the resulting window, calling >> center on it, and then getting the frame rect. This could be done in >> awakeFromNib and then released and would be unknown to the user. >> >> However the issues here are that a border less window obviously has >> not title bar, so how can I take that in to account ? Also I would >> like the resulting window to have a toolbar, where as the small window >> first displayed doesn't, so again how can I take this in to account ? >> Are there standard sizes I can apply for title bars and toolbars, as >> these could be added to the border less window frame before calling >> center ? >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Can you not just create a normal window with title bar and set it's alpha to > 0 to test the size form the OS? > > If that messes up your window activation, maybe you could do it quickly and > invisibly at launch to get all the rects you need for your window's > different contents. > > In the second case you may want to install a Display Configuration Callback > to be notified if the screen dimensions change. > > Trygve > > > _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
