On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Vince <mailingli...@satsumac.com> wrote: > 1. Can I add elements to an NSWindow's title bar (without having to rebuild > the entire window on my own)? In my case I'd just like to put an image right > underneath the window's title. > (kind of like what the OmniGroup did with the OmniFocus beta: > http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2008/01/omnifocus-header.png)
You can use -[NSWindow standardWindowButton:] to get a pointer to one of the window buttons, and then send it -superview. There's no guarantee that this is actually going to be the view that draws the background, however; you might want to instead use a textured window and draw a custom background yourself. Textured window dimensions are the same as regular window dimensions on Leopard, so you're in luck there. > 2a) How would I get that connection point between those two panels done with > NSViews? > Wouldn't I need to overlap the views (works since Leopard, I read)? Or is > there a better (= valid) solution for this? You don't need to wrap your subviews in other subviews; why not just draw the background for all the views inside your container view's -drawRect: implementation? > 2b) As you can see it will need semi-transparent gradients, some kind of > inner glow and last but not least an outer glow and drop shadow. > I googled, and googled, and googled… but couldn't find any demonstrative > tutorial/instruction/guide on building such a custom view component. The cool thing about the Quartz rendering model is that you can usually get the same results you got in Photoshop by doing the exact same things, since both rendering models share a lot with the PDF model. This means dropping down to Core Graphics sometimes, but it's not that bad. --Kyle Sluder > > The only guide I found—that might do the trick—was from Scott Stevenson > (http://cocoadevcentral.com/d/intro_to_quartz_two/). > > So, before I start trying this in Scott's way, I wanted to ask you if there > is any better way of programming such (code rendered) custom controls > without the use of images (in order to achieve resolution independence)? > > Btw, wouldn't it be great to have some kind of programmatic equivalent for > Photoshop's shape styles in Cocoa? > This way one could design his complex custom elements in Photoshop using > "Layer Styles" and then translate it to Cocoa "Shape Styles" almost 1:1. (Or > do it all in code, with no translation, right from the beginning.) > > Thanks in advance, > Vince_______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kyle.sluder%40gmail.com > > This email sent to kyle.slu...@gmail.com > -- --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
