Zooming in an NSView

Question

I have an NSView in which the user can draw circles. These circles are stored as an array of NSBezierPaths, and in drawRect:, I loop through the array and call -stroke on each of the paths. How do I add a button to zoom in and out the NSView? Just change the bounds of the view?

Thanks.

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '10 at 01:43

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Send your view a scaleUnitSquareToSize: message.

answered Mar 15 '10 at 01:43

Peter Hosey

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Please update the link. You can use the link provided by my answer. – Darkwonder Mar 30 '18 at 10:24

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 14 '16 at 07:17

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You might also find this informative:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1346/_index.html

The code in that document lets you add a "scale" property to a view.

edited Nov 14 '16 at 07:17

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answered Mar 15 '10 at 01:48

NSResponder

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 30 '18 at 10:23

The above answers didn't work for my scenario but led me to a solution.

The updated link to @Peter's answer was helpful: scaleUnitSquareToSize

I have found two soultions for zooming:

Cropping the bounds manually
Scalling the bounds with scaleUnitSquareToSize

I have created a small test project. Both solutions can be found on my GitHub repo : BoundsAndFramesCroppingAndScalling

To understand bounds vs frames read this SO article: difference-between-the-frame-and-the-bounds.

Swift scalling code:

let scaleSize = NSSize(width: 0.5, height: 0.5)
// 0.5 - Half the size
// 1.0 - No calling
// 2.0 - double the size , ... etc
myView?.scaleUnitSquare(to: scaleSize)
myView?.needsDisplay = true

Zooming in an NSView

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