Re: Font constants

[Fred Kiefer]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> I started to implement this method, but noticed that I will need to 
> include NSCell.h into NSFont.h to see the type NSControlSize. Doing so 
> failed because of some complex recursion in the includes. There surely 
> is some trick to work around this by moving one include down a few lines 
> and a type defintion up (or something like this), but I would like to 
> suggest a different solution. NSControlSize and NSControlTint and their 
> placement in NSCell and NSColor always looked strange to me. What about 
> moving them into some new public header file, perhaps called 
> NSAppearance.h? From there it would be easy to include them into any of 
> the offical header file where they are needed.
> The problem here is of course that we create a new file and have to take 
> care that it wont be used for any other cases. Perhaps we better but a 
> "private" into the file name?
> I would prefer some quick answers here, so that I am able to go ahead 
> today. Untill I get them I'll try the statement shifting to see if there 
> is a simple solution in there.

OK, I found another way to work around this by moving NSControlSize also 
into NSColor.h. This will do for the moment, I am still in favour of a 
sperate header file for these two.

Fred