Re: Small variant of NSSearchField?

FROM : Tom Bunch
DATE : Mon Mar 10 23:50:42 2008

It does seem to be order dependent.  This works (though it does drop 
the baseline a pixel)

    [[searchField cell] setControlSize:NSSmallControlSize];
    [searchField setFont:[NSFont systemFontOfSize:[NSFont 
systemFontSizeForControlSize:NSSmallControlSize]]];
    NSRect searchFrame = [searchField frame];
    NSSize cellSize = [[searchField cell] 
cellSizeForBounds:searchFrame];
    searchFrame.size.height = cellSize.height;
    [searchField setFrame:searchFrame];

If you don't set the font first, cellSizeForBounds: doesn't give you 
the size you want.

-Tom

On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:45 PM, John Stiles wrote:

> I've done all of these things, and so far no dice.
>
> The small control clearly has a different overall look—for 
> instance, the magnifying glass icon has a smaller variant which I 
> do not see. Also, when I set the smaller frame, it's just using the 
> big-size control and cutting off its bottom edge, which looks dumb.
>
> I also tried calling -sizeToFit but this had no effect.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
> Jonathan Hess wrote:

>> Hey John -
>>
>> IB also typically changes the cell's font, and the control's frame 
>> when you use the pop up in the control size inspector.
>>
>> Hope that helps -
>> Jon Hess
>>
>> On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:27 PM, John Stiles wrote:
>>

>>> Interface Builder can easily make a small variant of NSSearchField
>>> —it's right there in the size popup—but I can't manage to 
>>> reproduce the effect in code. The typical approach doesn't work:
>>>
>>>  [[searchField cell] setControlSize:NSSmallControlSize];
>>>
>>> does nothing at all, though this does shrink almost any other 
>>> control type I can think of.
>>> I searched the archives and found that another user had this 
>>> problem in mid-2007, but there was no solution posted.
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
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