[MacRuby-devel] sub classing with hot cocoa

[Richard Kilmer]

class MyView < NSView
     include HotCocoa::Behaviors
     def drawRect(rect)
        #do something...
     end
end

That HotCocoa::Behaviors was what you were missing.

On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:58 AM, John Shea wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> thanks for your answer.
>
> I tried that initially, but my subclass was having problems being  
> added to the layout view.
>
> Anyway - somehow I got something going a little further - the  
> important thing was to have a create method which has :  
> alloc.initWithFrame([0, 0, *GameSize]) in my NSView subclass...
>
> I did not get much further than painting black (transparency etc did  
> not work) - but its on the back burner while I experiment a bit more  
> with plain MacRuby.
>
> Cheers and thanks,
> John
>
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Benjamin Stiglitz wrote:
>
>>> I am sure there is an easy answer to this question, but I have not  
>>> figured it out after some experimenting (nor can I find an example  
>>> in the examples)
>>>
>>> What do I do if i want to subclass (say) an NSView ? And yet still  
>>> employ that subclass with all the rest of the hot cocoa magic? (so  
>>> without using nib/xibs)
>>>
>>> I would do this to overwrite the drawRect callback for NSView for  
>>> example - perhaps to do some animation.
>>
>> class MyView < NSView
>> def drawRect(r)
>>
>> end
>> end
>>
>> or, even better in some cases
>>
>> a = view(:something)
>> class << a
>> def drawRect(r)
>>
>> end
>> end
>>
>> -Ben
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