Re: Autosizing subviews

[Andreas Höschler]

> > However, I noted a difference between MacOSX and GNustep. If you call
> > setFrame: on a NSView in MacOSX this will call setFrameSize:. On 
> > GNUstep
> > this is not the case. If sublcasses overwrite setFrameSize: with extra
> > functionality, this won't work on GNUstep while it does on MacOSX. May
> > be we should change the setFrame: and setFrameSize: implementations of
> > NSView, NSScrollView,.. to behave like MacOSX does. Any thoughts?
>
> It would not be to hard to change setFrame: to call the two other
> methods (setFrameSize: and setFrameOrigin:), but wouldn't in that case
> two notifications be send?

It wouldn't be hard to avoid this, would it?

> And what happens on MacOSX when you overwrite
> setFrame:, but call setFrameSize:? Will your own code be called as 
> well?

I conclude overwriting setFrame:, setFrameSize: is bad coding style. 
One is better off observing the notification instead. I agree that no 
change in the code is required here.

Regards,

  Andreas