On 10 Apr 2014, at 17:09, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Apr 10, 2014, at 6:25 AM, Jonathan Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On some occasions I want my controls to collapse and set a width defining 
>> constraint constant to zero.
> 
> In general, views should not be resized to zero width or height. A lot of 
> times things will break internally (divide by zero errors or visual 
> artifacts). This was even more likely in the days of springs and struts, when 
> shrinking a view to zero width/height meant -resizeWithOldSuperviewSize: lost 
> all the information necessary to apply springs and struts.
Thinking about this point again and I don’t think it holds up.

Autolayout can easily drive a view to be of zero size.
A view that doesn’t contain sufficient internal constraints (or an intrinsic 
size) to define an unambiguous frame returns 0,0 for its -fittingSize. 
Indeed, when adding views to a NSStackView one of the most common issues is 
that the subview collapses to zero because its -fittingSize is returning 0,0.

J
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