Mailing Lists: Apple Mailing Lists
Image of Mac OS face in stamp
 
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Appearance Drawing Questions

On 5/30/03 5:00 PM, Duane Murphy didst favor us with:

> --- 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?

I believe with the exception of a few "oversights," this is correct. The
only oversight I've run into so far is that there's no way to use Appearance
to draw the intermediate state of a disclosure triangle (though I was told
they're going to address that).

Larry
_______________________________________________
carbon-development mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/carbon-development
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
References: 
 >Re: Appearance Drawing Questions (From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>)



Visit the Apple Store online or at retail locations.
1-800-MY-APPLE

Contact Apple | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.