Prior to HITheme APIs, there was the Appearance Manager, which had a
similar mission--allow developers to render the Aqua controls--but
existed all the way back OS 8 (and I think you could install it onto
7.6 as an extension, as well...?).
I think it has some limitations in the OS X world--e.g. there are
controls which it can't render--but it might be worth investigating
for the ultimate in compatibility.
On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Daniel Jalkut wrote:
Thanks, Camillo. Definitely some interesting drawing utilities in
there that I hadn't noticed. I see that they became public in
10.3, which I might be amenable too. I also see however that they
are poorly documented, outside of the HITheme.h header file.
Daniel
On Jan 31, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Camillo Lugaresi wrote:
On 29/gen/06, at 21:59, Daniel Jalkut wrote:
I want to develop a "fake menu" view such that I can present UI
somewhat like the "menu" that appears below a Spotlight query
when invoked from the menu bar.
Does anybody have any advice? It doesn't have to be so much like
a real menu. That is, it won't need things like hierarchical
displays or keyboard shortcut symbols, etc. But it needs to
present text in the menu font against the faintly-striped
background (fortunately I think that's the standard window
background).
When you want to emulate the look of standard UI elements in a
custom view, use the HITheme API.
Camillo
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