Inital badge project created with example

[rogchap]

This is only an early version of a badge view using QuartzCore.
Does not have a badge "gloss" yet and also not yet documented.

Challenges:

• getting the right badge size for the font used; perhaps we should use a set font with a scale factor instead of allowing the user to change the font??
• the drop shadow is clipped when using a smaller font; need to add more padding to the view - DONE

[bmeurer]

Shouldn't -setText: invoke -setNeedsLayout rather than -setNeedsDisplay?

[rogchap]

No, as it's not doing a sub layout as everything is manually drawn onto the view. -setNeedsDisplay will invoke -drawRect which is what is required.

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On 14 Aug 2011, at 16:39, bmeurerreply@reply.github.com wrote:

Shouldn't -setText: invoke -setNeedsLayout rather than -setNeedsDisplay?

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[bmeurer]

-setText: is different, because the size depends on the actual text in your -sizeThatFits: implementation, so relayouting makes sense when text changes.

[rogchap]

Even the text is drawn within -drawRect, therefore I want -drawRect to be called which -setNeedsDisplay does. Only if text was being added via UILabel in overriding the -layout method would -setNeedsLayout be required.

That's my understanding of it anyway...will happily be corrected :)

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On 14 Aug 2011, at 20:17, bmeurerreply@reply.github.com wrote:

-setText: is different, because the size depends on the actual text in your -sizeThatFits: implementation, so relayouting makes sense when text changes.

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[bmeurer]

I'm not an expert in the UIView programming stuff, but my understanding is that -setNeedsLayout triggers layout, which in turn triggers redisplay, and whenever something is about to change the (preferred) size of an UIView it should invoke -setNeedsLayout.

But as said, that's just how I read the documentation.

[bmeurer]

Forget about that. I stand corrected. -setNeedsLayout is only for subviews of the receiver.

[rogchap]

This should be in a decent state now; with documentation, and rebased with current master (0.6.1). Let me know if there are any changes required?

[jverkoey]

Will do! I'm going to play with this a bit today I think after I write unit tests for the Nimbus Models.

[0xdevalias]

Just wondering whether this is pretty much completed now?

[rogchap]

This should be ready :)