FancyAbout/AboutPanelController.m
/* |
File: AboutPanelController.m |
Abstract: Controller for the about window. |
Version: 1.2 |
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#import "AboutPanelController.h" |
// Another approach would be to allow changing these through NSUserDefaults |
#define SCROLL_DELAY_SECONDS 0.03 // time between animation frames |
#define SCROLL_AMOUNT_PIXELS 1.00 // amount to scroll in each animation frame |
// We pad this many blank lines at the end of the text, so the visible part |
// of the text can scroll out of sight. |
#define BLANK_LINE_COUNT 50 |
@implementation AboutPanelController |
#pragma mark PRIVATE INSTANCE METHODS |
- (void) createPanelToDisplay |
{ |
// Programmatically create the new panel |
panelToDisplay = [[NSFancyPanel alloc] |
initWithContentRect: [[panelInNib contentView] frame] |
styleMask: NSBorderlessWindowMask |
backing: [panelInNib backingType] |
defer: NO]; |
// Make us the controller |
[(NSFancyPanel *)panelToDisplay setController:self]; |
// Tweak esthetics, making it all white and with a shadow |
[panelToDisplay setBackgroundColor:[NSColor whiteColor]]; |
[panelToDisplay setHasShadow:YES]; |
[panelToDisplay setBecomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded:NO]; |
// We want to know if the window is no longer key/main |
[panelToDisplay setDelegate:self]; |
// Move the guts of the nib-based panel to the programmatically-created one |
{ |
NSView *content; |
content = [[panelInNib contentView] retain]; |
[content removeFromSuperview]; |
[panelToDisplay setContentView: content]; |
[content release]; |
} |
} |
// Take version information from standard keys in the applicationÕs bundle |
// dictionary and display it. |
// |
- (void) displayVersionInfo |
{ |
NSString *value; |
value = [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:@"CFBundleShortVersionString"]; |
if (value != nil) |
{ |
[shortInfoField setStringValue: value]; |
} |
value = [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:@"CFBundleVersion"]; |
if (value != nil) |
{ |
value = [@"Version " stringByAppendingString:value]; |
[versionField setStringValue: value]; |
} |
} |
// Watch for notifications that the application is no longer active, or that |
// another window has replaced the About panel as the main window, and hide |
// on either of these notifications. |
// |
- (void)watchForNotificationsWhichShouldHidePanel |
{ |
// This works better than just making the panel hide when the app |
// deactivates (setHidesOnDeactivate:YES), because if we use that |
// then the panel will return when the app reactivates. |
// |
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self |
selector:@selector(hidePanel) |
name:NSApplicationWillResignActiveNotification |
object:nil]; |
// If the panel is no longer main, hide it. |
// (We could also use the delegate notification for this.) |
// |
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self |
selector:@selector(hidePanel) |
name:NSWindowDidResignMainNotification |
object:panelToDisplay]; |
} |
// Get and return the text to scroll. This implementation just loads the contents |
// of the ÒREADME.rtfÓ in the main bundle. You might choose a different file, or |
// a completely different implementation. |
// |
- (NSAttributedString *) textToScroll |
{ |
NSString *path; |
// Locate the README.rtf inside the applicationÕs bundle. |
path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: @"AboutContent" ofType: @"rtf"]; |
// Suck the contents of the rich text file into a mutable Òattributed stringÓ. |
return [[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithPath:path documentAttributes:NULL] autorelease]; |
} |
// Load the text to scroll into the scrolling text view. The odd thing here is |
// that we load not only the text you'd expect, but also a bunch of blank lines |
// at the end. The blank lines allow the real text to scroll out of sight. |
// |
- (void)loadTextToScroll |
{ |
NSMutableAttributedString *textToScroll; |
NSAttributedString *newline; |
// Get whatever text we want to display |
textToScroll = [[self textToScroll] mutableCopy]; |
// Append a bunch of blank lines to the end of the text, so it can always |
// scroll out of sight. This is not an elegant solution, and could fail if |
// the window and view are sufficiently tall. (I choose not to listen to |
// the rumors of the 5-meter tall Apple Drive-In Display.) |
// Make up one newline |
newline = [[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString: @"\n"] autorelease]; |
// Append that one newline to the real text a bunch of times |
for (NSInteger i = 0; i < BLANK_LINE_COUNT; i++) |
[textToScroll appendAttributedString:newline]; |
// Put the final result into the UI |
[[textView textStorage] setAttributedString:textToScroll]; |
} |
// Scroll to hide the top 'newAmount' pixels of the text |
- (void)setScrollAmount:(float)newAmount |
{ |
// Scroll so that (0, amount) is at the upper left corner of the scroll view |
// (in other words, so that the top 'newAmount' scan lines of the text |
// is hidden). |
// |
[[textScrollView documentView] scrollPoint:NSMakePoint(0.0, newAmount)]; |
// If anything overlaps the text we just scrolled, it wonÕt get redraw by the |
// scrolling, so force everything in that part of the panel to redraw. |
{ |
NSRect scrollViewFrame; |
// Find where the scrollviewÕs bounds are, then convert to panelÕs coordinates |
scrollViewFrame = [textScrollView bounds]; |
scrollViewFrame = [[panelToDisplay contentView] convertRect:scrollViewFrame fromView:textScrollView]; |
// Redraw everything which overlaps it. |
[[panelToDisplay contentView] setNeedsDisplayInRect: scrollViewFrame]; |
} |
} |
// Scroll one frame of animation |
- (void)scrollOneUnit |
{ |
float currentScrollAmount; |
// How far have we scrolled so far? |
currentScrollAmount = [textScrollView documentVisibleRect].origin.y; |
// Scroll one unit more |
[self setScrollAmount:(currentScrollAmount + SCROLL_AMOUNT_PIXELS)]; |
} |
// If we don't already have a timer, start one messaging us regularly |
- (void)startScrollingAnimation |
{ |
// Already scrolling? |
if (scrollingTimer != nil) |
return; |
// Start a timer which will send us a 'scrollOneUnit' message regularly |
scrollingTimer = [[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:SCROLL_DELAY_SECONDS |
target:self |
selector:@selector(scrollOneUnit) |
userInfo:nil |
repeats:YES] retain]; |
} |
// Stop the timer and forget about it |
- (void)stopScrollingAnimation |
{ |
[scrollingTimer invalidate]; |
[scrollingTimer release]; |
scrollingTimer = nil; |
} |
#pragma mark PUBLIC CLASS METHODS |
+ (AboutPanelController *)sharedInstance |
{ |
static AboutPanelController *sharedInstance = nil; |
if (sharedInstance == nil) |
{ |
sharedInstance = [[self alloc] init]; |
[NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"AboutPanel.nib" owner:sharedInstance]; |
} |
return sharedInstance; |
} |
#pragma mark PUBLIC INSTANCE METHODS |
// Show the panel, starting the text at the top with the animation going |
- (void)showPanel |
{ |
// Scroll to the top |
[self setScrollAmount: 0.0]; |
[self startScrollingAnimation]; |
// Make it the key window so it can watch for keystrokes |
[panelToDisplay makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil]; |
} |
// Stop scrolling and hide the panel. (We stop the scrolling only to avoid |
// wasting the processor, since if we kept scrolling it wouldnÕt be visible anyway.) |
// |
- (void)hidePanel |
{ |
[self stopScrollingAnimation]; |
[panelToDisplay orderOut: nil]; |
} |
// This method exists only because this is a developer example. |
// You wouldnÕt want it in a real application. |
// |
- (void)setShowsScroller:(BOOL)newSetting |
{ |
[textScrollView setHasVerticalScroller:newSetting]; |
} |
#pragma mark PUBLIC INSTANCE METHODS -- NSNibAwaking INFORMAL PROTOCOL |
- (void)awakeFromNib |
{ |
// Create 'panelToDisplay', a borderless window, using the guts of the more vanilla 'panelInNib'. |
[self createPanelToDisplay]; |
// Fill in text fields |
[self displayVersionInfo]; |
[self loadTextToScroll]; |
// Make things look nice |
[panelToDisplay center]; |
// Make lots of other things dismiss the panel |
[self watchForNotificationsWhichShouldHidePanel]; |
} |
#pragma mark PUBLIC INSTANCE METHODS -- NSFancyPanel DELEGATE |
- (BOOL)handlesKeyDown: (NSEvent *)keyDown inWindow:(NSWindow *)window |
{ |
// Close the panel on any keystroke. |
// We could also check for the Escape key by testing |
// [[keyDown characters] isEqualToString: @"\033"] |
[self hidePanel]; |
return YES; |
} |
- (BOOL)handlesMouseDown:(NSEvent *)mouseDown inWindow:(NSWindow *)window |
{ |
// Close the panel on any click |
[self hidePanel]; |
return YES; |
} |
@end |
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