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slashlos

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:40 pm
Post subject: Vertical Orientation of NSSliderCell and usage within an NSMatrix
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I'm thinking out loud on how to satisfy a need...

I need a control which visually appears to be those of a graphic
equalizer, or a series of slider cells with vertical orientation.
However, in IB (v3) the slider cells are only horizontal?

I guess I need to create a vertically oriented slider cell that I would
drop onto each cell of an NSMatrix; this cell would be subclassed from
NSSliderCell and somehow draw itself vertically; but how do get IB to
use this custom cell?

In prior xcode versions the notion of an IB palette is now gone in v3
but are there examples showing the steps I'll need?
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/los "I was a teenage net-random."

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John C. Randolph

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:02 am
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On 2008-02-10 09:40:37 -0800, slashlos said:

> I'm thinking out loud on how to satisfy a need...
>
> I need a control which visually appears to be those of a graphic
> equalizer, or a series of slider cells with vertical orientation.
> However, in IB (v3) the slider cells are only horizontal?
>
> I guess I need to create a vertically oriented slider cell that I would
> drop onto each cell of an NSMatrix; this cell would be subclassed from
> NSSliderCell and somehow draw itself vertically; but how do get IB to
> use this custom cell?
>
> In prior xcode versions the notion of an IB palette is now gone in v3
> but are there examples showing the steps I'll need?

Grab a vertical slider from the object library. Drag it into your
window. Select it. Choose "Layout->Embed Objects In->Matrix" from
the menu bar. HIt command-I to get the inspector window. Select the
Attributes inspector, and use the steppers or the text field to enter
the number of rows and/or columns you want in your matrix.

-jcr

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:09 pm
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John C. Randolph wrote:

> Grab a vertical slider from the object library. Drag it into your
> window. Select it. Choose "Layout->Embed Objects In->Matrix" from the
> menu bar. HIt command-I to get the inspector window. Select the
> Attributes inspector, and use the steppers or the text field to enter
> the number of rows and/or columns you want in your matrix.
>
> -jcr
>
Thanks!!!! Believe it or not, I had just found this out; the 'Embed in
Matrix' option off the menu; that alone was worth moving to v3. I found
that you'd want to setup the slider attributes first, replicate, then
embed in the matrix. Thanks again.

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/los "I was a teenage net-random."
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:02 pm
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John C. Randolph wrote:

> Grab a vertical slider from the object library. Drag it into your
> window. Select it. Choose "Layout->Embed Objects In->Matrix" from the
> menu bar. HIt command-I to get the inspector window. Select the
> Attributes inspector, and use the steppers or the text field to enter
> the number of rows and/or columns you want in your matrix.
>
> -jcr

Sorry, day job got in the way;-) I just tried this with the slider and
several other controls in IB's "run" mode and nothing seems to work or
interact as I'd expect. Seem you can't un-embed them either. If I create
individual sliders they work just fine, just not when assembled into a
matrix.

Has anyone tried this feature (of matrix embedding) successfully?

p.s. I also for some reason can't get a level indicator to work at all
so the problem might be in my nib somewhere?

/los "I was a teenage net-random"
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:56 pm
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> p.s. I also for some reason can't get a level indicator to work at all
> so the problem might be in my nib somewhere?

Well, I'd created a new new and can't get a level indicator to work at
all. All I did was create a new empty nib, drop in a window and place a
level indicator in it and tried to %R (test it); it has no interaction
at all;

Similarly trying a slider (horz or vert) individually works fine but
when encased into a matrix it becomes inoperative.

Am I missing something on either account?

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