Am 17.08.2012 um 21:27 schrieb Nick eveningn...@gmail.com:
Did Apple developers
paint every dialog element manually? Are there some classes already
available that would allow to theme up an app like this?
They are probably using lots of subclasses for the various controls.
Since Apple wrote
On Aug 17, 2012, at 9:27 PM, Nick eveningn...@gmail.com wrote:
I am wondering what does it take to make panels/buttons that
customized, like it is done in Apple Aperture? Did Apple developers
paint every dialog element manually? Are there some classes already
available that would allow to
On Aug 20, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote:
essentially subclass all the controls and override drawRect: (and mouseDown:
where needed) to get our custom graphics in there.
One note: Many controls on the Mac are NSCell-based NSControls, in which case
you
Hi Uli,
Thanks for the answer.
Do you think using Nokia (trolltech) Qt (it supports CSS controls
styling) might be a bad idea? It's pretty easy to customize looks, it
seems. I am not sure about the native look and feel of such an
application though..
2012/8/20 Uli Kusterer
On Aug 20, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Nick eveningn...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you think using Nokia (trolltech) Qt (it supports CSS controls
styling) might be a bad idea? It's pretty easy to customize looks, it
seems. I am not sure about the native look and feel of such an
application though..
Depends on
Thanks a lot to everyone who has answered in this thread!
2012/8/18 Steven Woolgar swool...@woolsoft.com:
otool is your friend when you want to find these things out.
Aperture, Logic and the other Apple Pro apps use a framework called ProKit.
It is internal and private.
See:
otool is your friend when you want to find these things out.
Aperture, Logic and the other Apple Pro apps use a framework called
ProKit. It is internal and private.
See: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework
The images are in a custom binary file:
Hi
I am wondering what does it take to make panels/buttons that
customized, like it is done in Apple Aperture? Did Apple developers
paint every dialog element manually? Are there some classes already
available that would allow to theme up an app like this?
Thank you
Since not all of us have Aperture, can you point us to a screenshot of what you
are aiming for?
On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Nick wrote:
Hi
I am wondering what does it take to make panels/buttons that
customized, like it is done in Apple Aperture? Did Apple developers
paint every dialog
Aperture interface looks like this:
http://www.cifoto.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/12-05-14-raw-convertery-2.jpg
2012/8/17 Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com:
Since not all of us have Aperture, can you point us to a screenshot of what
you are aiming for?
On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Nick wrote:
While I cannot say Aperture does this, when it comes to drawing a uniquely
themed UI, you might find these draw functions in AppKit to be useful:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Appl
icationKit/Miscellaneous/AppKit_Functions/Reference/reference.html
Look in
To get many of these types of controls, I believe that in the Flash or web
world world, this was referred to 9 slice scaling or 3 slice scaling.
If you're going to have buttons that are are Macish, and you will source your
own graphics, you don't want to focus on anything that's not compatible
Here are some of the other screenshots.. I wonder what would it take
to create something like that..
They even customized the menus (it has black background and a custom fount)..
http://itc.ua/files/pics/2(713).jpg
On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Nick eveningn...@gmail.com wrote:
Here are some of the other screenshots.. I wonder what would it take
to create something like that..
They even customized the menus (it has black background and a custom fount)..
http://itc.ua/files/pics/2(713).jpg
I think
On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote:
On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Nick eveningn...@gmail.com wrote:
Here are some of the other screenshots.. I wonder what would it take
to create something like that..
They even customized the menus (it has black background and a custom
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