[Openmcl-devel] Uncle!

[Ron Garret]

Just what I needed.  Thanks!

rg

On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:49 PM, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:

>
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:42 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
>
>>> The idiomatic way of setting up a window's view hierarchy is by
>>> obtaining the window's content view (#/contentView window) and
>>> then adding subviews to that.  A simple example of this is available
>>> at:
>>>
>>> <http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl/wiki/CocoaBridge>
>>
>> That doesn't really show how to add subviews, just how to set up the
>> original contentView.  But I'm making good progress and I'm sure I'll
>> figure it out sooner or later.
>
>
> Something like:
>
> (setf *v* (show-red-window))
> (let* ((b (make-instance 'ns:ns-button :with-frame (ns:make-ns-rect  
> 0 0 0 0))))
>  (#/setTitle: b #@"this does nothing")
>  (#/setBezelStyle: b #$NSRoundedBezelStyle)
>  (#/sizeToFit b)
>  (#/addSubview: *v* b)
>  (#/setFrameOrigin: b (ns:make-ns-point 30 30))
>  (#/release b))
>
> To position a subview, update the subview's frame (with #/setFrame:,  
> #/setFrameOrigin: or whatever.)
>
> Apple's View Programming Guide is worth a look, if only just to get  
> acquainted with the frame/bounds distinction, and a few other bits  
> of terminology and background.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaViewsGuide/index.html