Question

i’m trying to create a window that can be scaled, just like the iPhone/iPad simulator. in the iPad simulator, you can select Window > Scale and select either 100% or 50%.

is there a way to make an NSWindow do this? i’ve looked at applying scaleUnitSquareToSize to the window’s contentView but no matter what i do in InterfaceBuilder, the contentView keeps resizing itself to fill the window. is this the correct behavior even after removing all struts for the contentView?

Answer 1

This is a great open source implementation of a zoomable NSView:GCZoomView

the contentView keeps resizing itself
to fill the window

The content view’s autoresizing behavior has nothing to do with the unit square’s scale factor.