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Re: Shiny little square buttons

On 2 Jul 2006, at 12:54 pm, Nik Youdale wrote:

I am trying to make an inspector window similar to the one in Pages using a row of buttons at the top to select panes. However, I can not work out how to get the blue highlighting effect on these buttons.

The small square bezel buttons are perfect for this, except I can't make them go blue! I realize that pages uses images for their buttons, but I was looking for a way without making 3 or 4 images for each button.

Any ideas?

The inspector tabs in Pages are an NSMatrix of NSButtonCells using (in most cases) only 2 images for each cell - "normal" and "selected".

(Personally, if I were doing this, I'd dispense with the background images and draw the gradients in code in a custom cell subclass. The reason being re-usability - it's easier to vary the colours, sizes and background shapes for different requirements.)

Regards,
Jeremy
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