[MacRuby-devel] HotCocoa subclassing NSView

[Matt Aimonetti]

Oops, I guess the email sent from my iphone never left my 'holy' device.

Rich, what do you think about adding a new HotCocoa CustomView mapping since
subclassing NSView seems to be pretty common.

- Matt

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Richard Kilmer <rich at infoether.com> wrote:

> They do inherit constants, custom methods, etc (see lib/hotcocoa/mapper.rb,
> NOTE: ugly file right now, is a target for refactor)
> They are modules and those modules are mixed in.
> Best,
>
> Rich
>
> On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
> Thanks Rich, but if I do what you recommended, I guess I would not be able
> to use all the NSView extra stuff defined by the existing NSView mapping
> (constants, custom methods etc..).
>
> Wouldn't be better to make each mapping a mixin? That would allow us to
> reuse some default settings and subclassing a mapped class would give us all
> the mapping goodies.
>
> - Matt
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Richard Kilmer <rich at infoether.com>wrote:
>
>> This is how I would do it:
>>
>> class MyNewView < NSView
>>
>>  def drawRect(rect)
>>  end
>>
>> end
>>
>> HotCocoa::Mappings.map :my_new_view => :"MyNewView" do
>>  defaults :frame => DefaultEmptyRect, :layout => {}
>>
>>  def init_with_options(view, options)
>>    view.initWithFrame options.delete(:frame)
>>  end
>> end
>>
>> Then in your code you can just use it like any HotCocoa mapped class:
>>
>> my_new_view :frame => [0,0,10,10]
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> -rich
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:15 AM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>>
>>  I'm working on a new HotCocoa sample and I need to subclass NSView to
>>> override drawRect and add few more methods.
>>> I would like to be able to reuse all the goodies from HotCocoa and the
>>> view helper, what's the best way to do that?
>>>
>>> -Matt
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