Re: [APP IDEA] Desktop Background Scripting
Re: [APP IDEA] Desktop Background Scripting
- Subject: Re: [APP IDEA] Desktop Background Scripting
- From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:05:58 +0100
At 19:22 Uhr -0500 25.01.2004, Nebagakid wrote:
I can make the NSView a color, and a certain opacity, and that is it
:( . I would like to do something more, though, although that is
beyond my skills.
It isn't :-p You can create several views in the content view of a
window. You can write your own NSView subclasses (there's a template
under "new file" in xCode), and if you just want to display text, you
can just use an NSTextView or NSTextField, make it un-editable etc.
Create a new Cocoa NIB file with a window and just play with that a
little. Everything you can do with IB, you can also do 'manually'.
How easy would it be to make a way to have the app accept easy to
write scripts in the NSView area.
For now, I'd suggest you stick with writing your views in Cocoa.
Once you have a plug-in scheme that lets people drop in bundles that
add various views, and you have written some custom views that
display text, change colors etc., you can still write a special
plug-in that uses NSAppleScript to let the user customize that view.
Or you could use NSTask and capture the result of command-line-tools,
Perl scripts, PHP scripts and whatever other language is installed on
your Mac.
Also, how can I make the NSView centered? I have so many questions.
I just want to make it do this:
http://dco1.com/kitchen/images/apppreview1.jpg (the image I hope
explains a lot)
Well, obviously you'd have to write some text to get the actual
stock info (probably by parsing a web site using NSScanner after
downloading it using NSURL or WebCore). But apart from that, this
could be done using a run-of(f?)-the-mill NSTextView which you feed
an NSAttributedString.
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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