Re: Programmatic "Size To Fit"

FROM : Stéphane Sudre
DATE : Thu May 01 20:00:02 2008

On May 1, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Randall Meadows wrote:
> I am creating a bunch of controls (at least NSTextfield, 
> NSPopupButton, NSSlider, and perhaps others) programmatically (that 
> will eventually be shown in an NSTableView), and would like to 
> apply the "Size To Fit" feature that IB provides.  However, there 
> doesn't seem to be any API that does that.
>
> Does IB simply brute-force the resizing for every type of view, or 
> am I missing the appropriate call in the NSView API?


You should also take into account when using the sizeToFit message 
referenced by others that the result might not always be as good as 
in IB.

I'm thinking about NSButton and NSTextField for instance.