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Re: Appearance Drawing Questions

--- At Fri, 30 May 2003 13:36:15 -0700, Eric Schlegel wrote:

>On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Duane Murphy wrote:
>
>> There is this great Aqua UI designed and presented by Apple.
>> There are several controls designed and presented by Apple.
>> There is an API that lets you build your own controls from scratch.
>> But you cant draw them to look like Aqua.
>
>The intention is that you use the Appearance Manager API to draw your
>own controls, as much as possible. If you use Appearance, you'll get
>the right look.
>
>If the Appearance API doesn't provide what you need, and you need some
>other sort of control, then we'd really like it if you filed bugs
>describing what you need so we can try to provide it.

Thanks Eric, that's a great answer.

So, is it true then that I as an independent developer could reimplement
most if not all of the Aqua Controls using the existing Appearance API?
Bevel buttons, push buttons, round buttons, check boxes, radio buttons,
scroll bars, etc?

Of course the proof would be that Apple uses nothing but the Appearance
API to build controls.

...Duane
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