objective c - Cocoa NSView changing autosizing properties

Question

Using interface builder you can select the corners an object should stick to when resizing. How can you do this programatically?

Answer 1

I find that the autoresizingBit masks are horribly named, so I use a category on NSView to make things a little more explicit:

// MyNSViewCategory.h:
@interface NSView (myCustomMethods)

- (void)fixLeftEdge:(BOOL)fixed;
- (void)fixRightEdge:(BOOL)fixed;
- (void)fixTopEdge:(BOOL)fixed;
- (void)fixBottomEdge:(BOOL)fixed;
- (void)fixWidth:(BOOL)fixed;
- (void)fixHeight:(BOOL)fixed;

@end

// MyNSViewCategory.m:
@implementation NSView (myCustomMethods)

- (void)setAutoresizingBit:(unsigned int)bitMask toValue:(BOOL)set
{
    if (set)
    { [self setAutoresizingMask:([self autoresizingMask] | bitMask)]; }
    else
    { [self setAutoresizingMask:([self autoresizingMask] & ~bitMask)]; }
}

- (void)fixLeftEdge:(BOOL)fixed
{ [self setAutoresizingBit:NSViewMinXMargin toValue:!fixed]; }

- (void)fixRightEdge:(BOOL)fixed
{ [self setAutoresizingBit:NSViewMaxXMargin toValue:!fixed]; }

- (void)fixTopEdge:(BOOL)fixed
{ [self setAutoresizingBit:NSViewMinYMargin toValue:!fixed]; }

- (void)fixBottomEdge:(BOOL)fixed
{ [self setAutoresizingBit:NSViewMaxYMargin toValue:!fixed]; }

- (void)fixWidth:(BOOL)fixed
{ [self setAutoresizingBit:NSViewWidthSizable toValue:!fixed]; }

- (void)fixHeight:(BOOL)fixed
{ [self setAutoresizingBit:NSViewHeightSizable toValue:!fixed]; }

@end

Which can then be used as follows:

[someView fixLeftEdge:YES];
[someView fixTopEdge:YES];
[someView fixWidth:NO];