Re: Small variant of NSSearchField?

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Mon Mar 10 23:53:11 2008

I'll try it again with these steps. Thanks for the help.

Tom Bunch wrote:
> 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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