Question

I’m pulling my hair out trying to figure why my views aren’t resizing with my NSWindow on drag.

Okay, here’s my structure:

• Subclassed NSWindowController’s View (Use Auto Layout Checked for window. Auto Resize checked for view. Window’s View not hooked up to anything in IB, should it be?)
  • Various Buttons
  • Custom View (Auto Resizes Subviews checked)
    • Subclassed NSViewController’s View (Auto Resizes Subviews & Translates Mask checked)
      • Various Subviews (Auto Resizes Subviews checked)
    • Subclassed NSViewController’s View (Auto Resizes Subviews & Translates Mask checked)
      • Various Subviews (Auto Resizes Subviews checked)

I’m adding each of these views to my NSWindowController’s Custom View. This is the only relevant method in my file:

-(void)setActiveView:(NSString*) viewString{
    if ([currentViewController view] != nil)
        [[currentViewController view] removeFromSuperview];    

    if ([viewString isEqualToString:kFirstView]){
        FirstViewController *viewController = [[FirstViewController alloc]initWithNibName:kFirstView bundle:nil];
        if (viewController != nil){
            currentViewController = viewController;
        }

    }

    else if ([viewString isEqualToString:kSecondView]){
        SecondViewController *viewController = [[SecondViewController alloc]initWithNibName:kSecondView bundle:nil];
        if (viewController != nil){
            currentViewController = viewController;
        }
    }

    //Resize Controller to Window's size.
    [[currentViewController view] setFrame:[myWindowView bounds]];

    //Embed current view into Custom View in host view.
    [myWindowView addSubview:[currentViewController view]];


}

The setFrame to resize does work when I change views, but not when I drag to resize my window. As far as I can tell, because setFrame works when I change views, the only one that really matters (but isn’t working) is the Custom View inside my NSWindowController.

Also, this is how I bring this window forward:

    myController = [[MyWindowController alloc]initWithWindowNibName:@"MyWindow"];
    [myController showWindow:nil];

Yes I’ve already tried in my initwithframe:

[myWindowView setAutoresizesSubviews:YES];
[myWindowView setAutoresizingMask:NSViewWidthSizable | NSViewHeightSizable];

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Try to do this without Auto Layout.

Try this:

• Uncheck Use Auto Layout for window.

• Go to Size inspector and make autosizing to Your Views like this: