[kman42]

How do I switch out views in a window. I basically have several different views that I want to display depending on buttons pressed in the toolbar. The views should just replace one another in the window. How do I switch them?

kman

[Synotic]

Originally posted by kman42:
<STRONG>How do I switch out views in a window. I basically have several different views that I want to display depending on buttons pressed in the toolbar. The views should just replace one another in the window. How do I switch them?

kman</STRONG>

I believe you're looking for setContentView? Just pass it any view and it should update the window.

[kman42]

If I don't want everything in the window to change, but just some items can I just group them in a custom view and then send the custom view the setContentView or does it only work on windows?

I just checked for a setContentView in NSView and couldn't find it so I guess the answer is no.

Do I just have to release the views I want to disappear and instantiate new views programmatically when I want them to appear?
kman

edit-answered my own question

[ 04-21-2002: Message edited by: kman42 ]

[Porfiry]

From your description, it sounds like the easiest thing is to just use an NSTabView, and set it to not display the tabs (setTabViewType: NSNoTabsNoBorder). You can then programmatically switch between the views by calling any of the various selectTabViewItem methods.

[kman42]

Originally posted by Porfiry:
<STRONG>From your description, it sounds like the easiest thing is to just use an NSTabView, and set it to not display the tabs (setTabViewType: NSNoTabsNoBorder). You can then programmatically switch between the views by calling any of the various selectTabViewItem methods.</STRONG>

I like that idea. I'm also curious how people get their windows to 'slide' from view to view. For instance, when you click on a preference button in the System Prefs.

kman

[seb2]

Originally posted by kman42:
<STRONG>


I like that idea. I'm also curious how people get their windows to 'slide' from view to view. For instance, when you click on a preference button in the System Prefs.

kman</STRONG>

have a look at nswindow's setFrame:display:animate: -- use "YES" for "animate"...

[Rickster]

And if you still need help, look at the freely available OmniAppKit source code -- we do the animating resizing thing in OAPreferenceController.