[bug #34493] layout of loaded XIBs messed up

[Eric Wasylishen]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #34493 (project gnustep):

"the autoresize mask should only come into play if the view is resized, and
since the NSTabView containing the items is not resizeable, this should not
have any effect. "

The autoresizing mask comes into play because GNUstep doesn't assign the same
size to the NSTabView subviews as Cocoa. i.e. the theme metrics of the default
theme don't match Cocoa's, so it's as if you are resizing the tab view
slightly.

So for now, you have to make the tab contents look good when resized, even if
you don't want the tabview itself to be resizable.

With this in mind, current gnustep trunk is doing everything correctly as far
as I can see. e.g. the "objectives" box on tab 1 being shifted up, "enemies /
rounds / difficulty" being shifted up on tab 2, and "enable core breaches"
being shifted up on tab 4 are all expected: If you open the xib in Xcode and
make the window and outer tabview resizable, and expand the window slightly to
simulate the difference in tabview metrics between the GS theme and Cocoa, you
get the same results.


On tab 2, the highscores tabview touching the "space ship" box is a separate
issue: we draw right to the edge of the frame of a tab view, whereas cocoa
leaves a lot of empty space. 

So to sum up, there are two separate problems here:
- difference between view frame and the visible border of the view for some
NSView subclasses on GNUstep and Cocoa (the layout rect vs frame problem.)
Cocoa leaves empty space between the control's visible border and the frame,
whereas GNUstep draws right up to the frame. Fred, Quentin and I are having a
discussion about how to solve this problem right now.
-  even if the first problem were fixed, we have the problem of different
amounts of space in Cocoa and GNUstep between the frame of a composite view
like NSTabView, NSBox, etc. and the subviews. This is why the autoresizing
masks of things inside the tabs matters. The only fix for this is adjusting
the default theme to have the same metrics as Cocoa.

Fred: as far as I can see, we can disable the hack that changes the subview
autoresizing mask to NSWidthSizable|NSHeightSizable. Although, I don't see how
that should have any effect, since immediately after doing that we call
setFrame on the subview.


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