Re: some gui questions

[Wolfgang Lux]

Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 16:50 CET, Wolfgang Lux 
> <wolfgang.lux@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>> 
>>> for the MPDCon I created an Inspector for the Playlist. There I have some 
>>> checkboxes. 
>>> I tried to align it in Gorm, but failed a bit do get the text on the left 
>>> aligned on the grid with the other
>>> text there. The checkbox itself on the right aligns fine. In the Screenshot 
>>> you can see that
>>> the text for the checkboxes is some pixels to the right compared with the 
>>> other text around them.
>>> Is this intended, or should it align with the text?
>> 
>> I guess the texts should align. But until this is fixed your only chance is 
>> to do the alignment manually (by adding or subtracting a few pixels on the x 
>> coordinate in Gorm's size inspector).
> 
> for the time being, I can live with that, probably should open a bug report 
> for Gorm then, to get it fixed ;)

I'm not sure this is a Gorm bug. It may as well be a gui bug.

> 
>> 
>>> Also, I tried to disable the rating stars, and make the text grey, when the 
>>> checkboxes are disabled,
>>> but failed with that. When I disable the top checkbox,I can disable the 
>>> second checkbox, 
>>> with setEnabled:NO and its getting greyed out, and you cannot click on it. 
>>> But for the Text, and the stars I did not found something working, I also 
>>> wanted to have the text
>>> grey the same way like when the checkbox is disabled.
>> 
>> Have you tried setEnabled: NO? This should change the text to grey.
> 
> The problem I have with that is, that I don't know how to address the text. 
> In Gorm its just an
> NSTextField, but I don't know how to give it a name, and how to address it in 
> the code.

You should do it in the usual way, i.e., create an outlet for the text field 
and then connect the text string in Gorm to that outlet.

>>> The Stars are a NSTableView, with a table, containing just one single cell. 
>>> I tried to set
>>> the cell setEditable: NO but to no avail.
>>> Any hint how I can achieve that?
>> 
>> Why do you use a table and not a NSTextField? But anyway, setEnabled should 
>> work for a NSTextFieldCell inside a table as well.
> 
> I also use the same stars in the Playlist. The stars, and the rating, is 
> shamelessly stolen from Grr.
> 
> To make them not editable, I tried that:
>          [minRatingCell setEditable: NO];
>          [maxRatingCell setEditable: NO];
>          [minRatingCell setEnabled: NO];
>          [maxRatingCell setEnabled: NO];
> 
> but I still can edit the cells, i.e. change the amount of stars when clicking 
> on them.
> 
> The SongRatingCell is a subclass of NSCell:
> @interface SongRatingCell : NSCell

Hmmm, I haven't looked at the source, but then I guess it probably ignores the 
is_disabled and is_editable attributes of the cell.

Wolfgang