Re: Special Borders
Re: Special Borders
- Subject: Re: Special Borders
- From: Ben Kazez <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:13:08 -0400
I'm also working on trying to create the bevelled border that iApps use
around their table views.
I noticed in iPhoto's nib file that it uses an NSTableView subclass for
each of the table views that have the bevelled border, which makes a lot
of sense: No need to require a subview when this is just a specific type
of table. The only disadvantage is that then you need subclasses for all
UI elements that need to have this bevelled border, but I'm not
convinced that that's so bad -- there aren't that many anyway.
Unfortunately I'm very new to Cocoa, but is there a way of doing the
following in the drawRect method for an NSTableView subclass (say,
BKBevelledTableView)?
// psuedocode, of course
- drawRect:(NSRect)rect {
[self drawBevelledEdge]; // creates bevelled border
[self setAvailableDrawingArea:
([self availableDrawingArea] - (1 pixel on all sides))];
[super drawRect]; // draws table view but 1 pixel smaller on all sides
[self restoreAvailableDrawingArea];
}
I'm not sure if my "availableDrawingArea" concept is the same as
NSView's "bounds" concept or if my availableDrawingArea concept even
exists at all. Can someone help?
Ben
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:32:49 -0700, John C. Randolph wrote:
In creating our projects UI we noticed that certain iApps (iTunes,
iPhoto, etc...) have a different border-type around the interface
elements. For example the border around any of the box's in iTunes
like the Now Playing album artwork box is different then any border-
type you can give to a NSBox or other views. We also noticed some
3rd party apps like Delicious Library seem to use this border-type
as well. We want to join in the club ;-)
This border has no corner pixel, a darker grey on top, a light
almost white grey on the bottom and, the left and right has a
medium grey. Inside this is a solid darker grey. Its like a simple
1px shadow is being cast around the view.
( Our artist's representation of how this border looks: http://
cole.nitroy.com/Files/Temp/specialBorder.jpg )
The only way I can see to implement this in our app would be to
make a containing NSBox and have manually draw this border.
Is there a simple easy way of doing this and I am overcomplicating
things? I have scoured all over IB, and the NSView documentation
and cannot find anything. I have pried around in the nib files of
some of the iApps and do not see any red flags.
Apple doesn't provide any public way to draw those borders. If I
were in your shoes, I'd just draw it using NSRectFillListWithGrays();
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