Re: Small variant of NSSearchField?

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Mon Mar 10 23:59:55 2008

OK, I figured it out. My control's frame was too tall!

If you set the search field's frame to be more than 19 pixels tall, it
creates a large-sized variant even if you explicitly asked for the small
version. I was using 21 pixels, which is smaller than the regular size
of 22 pixels—so it was cropping pixels—but not small enough, apparently.

This is entirely different from the rest of the controls in Cocoa, which
honor the requested NSControlSize no matter what frame you use. You can
make a mini NSButton with a 50-pixel tall frame, and it draws just fine.
(The button just centers itself within its frame.)

I'll file a radar on this since it's clearly inconsistent, but at least
there is a workaround! Thanks for the help, guys :)


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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