Inside Macintosh: Programmer's Guide to MacApp / Part 2 - Working With MacApp

Chapter 17 -
Working With Views

This chapter includes recipes and sample code that demonstrate how to

• work with views (a general outline)
• create views for displaying and printing, or for printing only
• calculate the size of a view
• use an adorner with a view
• define a document class with a text-editing view

Chapter 8, "Displaying, Manipulating, and Printing Data," provides a detailed overview of MacApp's view facilities.

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Chapter Contents

Overview

The TView Class

Fields of TView

Methods of TView

Other View Classes

Other View-Related Classes

The TDrawingEnvironment Class

The TViewServer Class

Working With View Resource Templates

Defining View Resources

Converting Between Resource Formats

Creating Views From Resource Templates

Initializing Views Created by Template

Using Adorners With Views

Recipes--Views

Working With Views--A General Outline

Recipe--Creating Views for Displaying and Printing Versus Printing Only

Recipe--Calculating the Size of a View

Recipe--Using an Adorner With a View

Create and Initialize an Instance of an Adorner

Call the AddAdorner Method

Recipe--Using a Document Class With a Text-Editing View

Create a 'View' Resource With a Text-Editing View

Call InitUTEView From Your Main Routine

Provide a Document Class Definition

Provide Constructor and Destructor Methods

Provide an Initialization Method

Override the FreeData Method

Override the DoMakeViews Method

Override the DoNeedDiskSpace Method

Override the DoWrite Method

Override the DoRead Method

Override the Application's DoMakeDocument Method

Make Additional Modifications