This is in fact what I used. What happened when I tried it was that my tabview was drawn really weird.
I gave up thinking that this was too much of a hack. No offense of course to Matt if he is reading the list. Had it worked for me I would have probably gone with it. I really hate making a brushed metal application--yet plain old Aqua just doesn't seem right either.
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On Tuesday, November 07, 2006, at 10:46AM, "Carter R. Harrison" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Mark,
>
> Hopefully this isn't the same person's source code that you found on
>the net, but take a look anyway.
>
> http://mattgemmell.com/source/
>
> Head down to the "TunesWindow" project. I've also attached a
>screenshot. I'm worried that this uses png or some other image
>format to pull this off as well, but I'm not sure there is any other
>way right now.
>
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>Carter R. Harrison
>email@hidden
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>
>
>
>On Nov 7, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Mark Manes wrote:
>
>> Once again, greetings one and all. Let me thank everyone for their
>> help on my table view issues. I am past them now.. thanks to this
>> groups guiding hand. I felt silly as I found out my answer moments
>> after sending the message. That was after I had spent some time
>> already on it. Sometimes the easy things eludes me. :)
>>
>> I have a question -- I am working on an application that interfaces
>> to an iPod and I want to use polished metal. I know that this is
>> not available in Interface Builder--but what is the way to do this?
>> I looked around and found PolishMetal.m/.h from a fellow on the
>> net--but it used PNG images and did not work so well for me--there
>> were many drawing issues.
>>
>> So.. how is this trick done?
>>
>> On a separate note--I am having a hard time figuring out what tab I
>> am on in a tabview. I have implemented the delegate and I am able
>> to get the label of the tab -- but it seems wrong to do a string
>> compare to figure out which tab the user is currently facing. Any
>> suggestions on how to get the tab number?
>>
>> Many thanks.. this list is straight from heaven.
>>
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