[djohnson]

In my latest program, I am adding NSViews. There is something similiar to this:

while(I get the next thing)
{
NSView* view = [nextthing theView];
NSRange frame = [view bounds];
[view setFrame:NSMakeRect(0.0,height,112.0,frame.size.he ight)];
[theView addSubview:view positioned:1 relativeTo:nil];
[theView setNeedsDisplay:YES];
height += frame.size.height;
}

This will add my view that I am getting and place it in my theView which is the view of the window. Everything displays great, what I am having problems with is that only the latest NSView will accept mouse clicks. Now here are my thoughts:

1. I obtain the click in the window then find out if is inside of a NSRect and if that NSRect corresponds to one of the views. If it does, then I will need to switch to that view and let it do its thing.

I do not know how to switch to that view. Any ideas or am I going down the wrong trail?

[Mskr]

Originally posted by djohnson:
In my latest program, I am adding NSViews. There is something similiar to this:

while(I get the next thing)
{
NSView* view = [nextthing theView];
NSRange frame = [view bounds];
[view setFrame:NSMakeRect(0.0,height,112.0,frame.size.he ight)];
[theView addSubview:view positioned:1 relativeTo:nil];
[theView setNeedsDisplay:YES];
height += frame.size.height;
}

This will add my view that I am getting and place it in my theView which is the view of the window. Everything displays great, what I am having problems with is that only the latest NSView will accept mouse clicks. Now here are my thoughts:

1. I obtain the click in the window then find out if is inside of a NSRect and if that NSRect corresponds to one of the views. If it does, then I will need to switch to that view and let it do its thing.

I do not know how to switch to that view. Any ideas or am I going down the wrong trail?

What kind of NSView or NSView subclasses is this? If you're directly subclassing NSView, make sure that you override acceptsFirstMouse:. If it's some kind of NSControl or whatever, that shouldn't matter, I guess. Anyway, you shouldn't need to do anything to mouseDown: in the window; the event should get propagated properly to the subviews, if you're doing everything else correctly.

The reason that the last view added might be getting the mouse clicks is that it's become the first responder. Maybe look into that angle, as well.

Maybe if you could post a little more info on what the subviews that you're adding actually are, and what you're trying to accomplish, that might be helpful.

[djohnson]

Sure, the subviews are buttons. This is why it is messing with my head... I am directly subclassing NSView. Does this help any?