Re: Co-ordinate systems

FROM : Jakob Olesen
DATE : Sat Jul 29 18:35:47 2006

On 29/07/2006, at 18.10, Thomas Davie wrote:
>
> Basically, I only know how big my view is, once I've already 
> positioned everything in it.  I create a series of subviews at 
> different vertical positions, and once I've finished, I know the 
> total height they take up and set the view height accordingly.  The 
> problem is, the coordinate system appears to be based at the bottom 
> left of the view, meaning that if I take this approach everything 
> comes out upside down.
>
> The obvious solution is to simply suptract my calculated position 
> from the height of the view, but that's obviously not possible 
> because I don't know the height until I've positioned everything.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?


-[NSView isFlipped] was made for people like you. Override it to 
return YES.