Graham, I will look into your suggestion. Also, I want the ability to draw the selection box “outside” of the image, similar to what the Preview application allows.
On Oct 14, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Graham Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 Oct 2014, at 8:21 am, Peters, Brandon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am using a custom NSView as a selection rect. I also have a NSScrollView >> with a custom NSClipView and a document view. Should I make the selection >> rect (custom view) a subview of the document view or the clip view? What is >> best practice for this? > > If you are determined to do it this way, it should be a subview of your > content (document). > > But I don't think you should do it this way. Since you already have a custom > view containing your content, why not just give it a "selection rect" > property that you use to draw the selection after (i.e. "on top" of) all the > other content? Chances are it'll be much simpler to figure out what objects > the selection rect is touching or enclosing, and driving it using the mouse, > etc. With a separate view, you'll likely end up with a much more complicated > way to determine these things. K.I.S.S. > > Also, what's the reason for the custom clip view? > > --Graham > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
