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My Cocoa holdup

Posted by: fbcocoa.bw <fbcocoa.bw@...>

On 6 Nov 2009, at 20:28, Robert Covington wrote:

> I have a project I want to do in Cocoa, because I need to become more modern.
>
> But it's hard to figure out how to do things which are rather simple in FB.
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> I have a master image for a midi sequencer, and I need to fathom how to setup rects on that image, then make them behave as buttons, etc.
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> In FB, I can put the image in a GWorld, check PtInRect, and invert or otherwise draw a 'pushed' image, and go from there. or can use a custom control draw code (MakeIntoFBbutton type stuff, etc)
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> In Cocoa...I am not even sure how to place the background image in the window. I fathomed one way in IB, but not sure it is proper approach.
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> I guess I could maintain an array of NSRects or something and then draw the buttons , etc.
>

I haven't a clue if this is on the right track Robert: <welovegod.org/groups/fbcocoa/www/BackgroundImage.zip>

Bernie