Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] having an image button rotating as iSync

[Laurent S. <lsa...@ap...>]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
> 2007/9/5, Laurent Sansonetti <lsa...@ap...>: Yvon,
>
> What you need to do is write a custom view that would draw a rotated
> image. Then you can use NSAnimation or NSTimer to force the display of
> the control.
>
> There are no problems specific to RubyCocoa.
>
>
> then you mean, apart from the NSButton ?
> that's to say not having the NSButton image rotating (as in apple  
> iSync) but rather another image aside of it ?

I would subclass NSButton, provide a custom drawing method that would  
draw the image, then trigger a timer (using either NSTimer or  
NSAnimation) that would increment an index and force the button to be  
redrawn. The image would be drawn in a rotated mode based on the timer  
index.

Laurent