Fwd: Re: Problem with Renaissance and InstanceOf

[Sašo Kiselkov]

Quoting Chris Meredith <tallin32@comcast.net>:

>
> That turned the trick nicely to get the actual progress indicator to
> show up.  Now, a different problem seems to have come up, in that I
> can't set the progress indicator's style or the fact that the
> progress indicator is not indeterminate.  I know Cocoa provides both
> a setStyle and a setIndeterminate method, and I was left under the
> perhaps mistaken impression that including "style" and
> "indeterminate" attributes would have called those methods--although,
> in retrospect, this sort of thing may have only worked when setting
> up outlets.  Short of putting code in a delegate object to set up the
> progress indicator, is there a way of setting its style such that it
> doesn't automagically default to the spinning barber pole when what
> I'm looking for is the rectangular progress indicator?
>
> -C-

Unfortunatelly, Renaissance's capabilities of figuring out which method to
invoke when you present it with an attribute are very limited. It can do so
with key-value coding (e.g. someOutlet="#targetObjectID") in any object, but in
order for it to be able to set more specific attributes of controls (such as
enabled="NO" or color="red") it _must_ support that control type itself.
Unfortunatelly, it doesn't support NSProgressIndicator (and the use of <view
instanceOf="NSProgressIndicator"/> is just a hack to get around this
limitation), so your best bet is to implement it in code yourself. I'd suggest
you make use of the "-awakeFromGSMarkup" method (simmilar to "-awakeFromNib").

 Saso