Re: Subclassing NSPrintPanel

FROM : Dave Camp
DATE : Wed Nov 28 18:47:56 2007

On Nov 28, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Glenn Zelniker wrote:

> On Nov 26, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Dave Camp wrote:
>

>> On Nov 26, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Glenn Zelniker wrote:
>>

>>> I need to make a simple modification to NSPrintPanel. Because my 
>>> app deals with documents whose pages might have non-numeric names 
>>> (e.g., Cover, 22A, iii), I'd like the "Copies & Pages" pane's 
>>> NSTextFields to be able to display/accept values other than 
>>> integers. I realize that I can endow my NSPrintPanel with an 
>>> accessory view, but what I'd really like to do is replace the 
>>> Copies & Pages pane with one of my own. But I'd still like to 
>>> retain all the other panes, for obvious reasons. There doesn't 
>>> seem to be too much in the API for NSPrintPanel that'll let me do 
>>> this and I really, really don't want to have to make my own custom 
>>> print panel from scratch. Scouring the docs and the web for 
>>> solutions hasn't helped much -- the best I can come up with is 
>>> creating an NSPrintInfo object with a modified dictionary, but 
>>> even that won't let me set the start and end pages to anything 
>>> other than NSNumbers.
>>>
>>> Has anyone here confronted this problem before?

>>
>> What you need is to create your own Copies & Pages PDE that 
>> replaces Apple's. You'll have to re-implement all the functionality 
>> of the standard Apple PDE but that's probably not too hard.

>
> That's the approach I favor, as I mentioned above. But the question 
> is HOW to replace the Copies & Pages pane? There's nothing in the 
> published API about how to do this. Do you have any ideas


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Dave