Re: Sizing an NSBrowser (and why "sizeToFit" wreaks havoc)

[Adam Fedor]

Christopher Culver wrote:
> I have a single-column NSBrowser instance. I would like to automatically 
> size it to that its width is as long as the longest string within its 
> cells. How do I do that? (I want its height to remain fixed, just the 
> width to expand).
>
> Incidentally, I tried calling [browserInstance sizeToFit]. This caused 
> my machine to go under heavy load and start swapping. I was lucky I 
> could restart the damn thing. I was able to trace this exactly to this 
> instruction. Is one not supposed to call sizeToFit on an NSBrowser 
> instance? If not, then why does the application compile fine when this 
> instruction is present?

NSBrowser doesn't properly override -[NSControl sizeToFit]. That should 
be fixed. However, I'm not sure what it should do. Maybe someone can 
test what happens on OSX or something...