I started using a new method, -[NSView viewWillDraw], in one of my views for performing layout. This is a really handy method. It supports further dirtying of the view and frame changes. But while I was converting my code I discovered a case where my entire view was being redrawn. This was odd, so I [...]
As I said before, Leopard adds a new class, NSTrackingArea, that is now the preferred way of setting up cursor rectangles. It can also handle mouse entered/exited and mouse moved events, but right now I’m only interested in cursor updates. I didn’t really gain anything from using NSTrackingArea in this case. I still have to [...]
Leopard adds a new class, NSTrackingArea, that is now the preferred way of setting up cursor rectangles. I’m looking at switching some old code to use the new method, but first I’ll describe how it currently works. The old way Your NSView subclass implements -resetCursorRects to add the cursor rects. The old ones have already [...]
It’s not my fault. I just wanted to move the iCal window out of the way so that I could see Pierre Igot’s blog entry on iCal 3 hyphenation. I was going to add an appointment and watch the problem in action. But when I moved the window, the day view started scrolling up. This [...]