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.
Fortunately, the HITheme APIs are pretty straightforward and the
headers explain the various parameters and fields. You can use this
for the HIRect parameters (HIRect = CGRect):
HITheme is a modernization of the Appearance APIs, so you can look at
the Appearance Manager documentation for general usage information.
On 31/gen/06, at 23:49, John Stiles wrote:
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.
The biggest problem of the old Appearance Manager APIs is that they
use QuickDraw for drawing, so you need to have a QD port around. This
is not a huge problem for Carbon, but in Cocoa it would force you to
use an NSQuickDrawView, unless there is another method of getting a
QD port.
Camillo
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