Creating interface elements with custom layout and look&feel
Creating interface elements with custom layout and look&feel
- Subject: Creating interface elements with custom layout and look&feel
- From: "Dmitry Savenok" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:29:04 +0300
- Organization: Eltima
Hi everyone,
I would like to find out your thoughts and ideas concerning how would it
be better to realize custom looking or custom functioning interface
elements (buttons, sliders, scrollbars, etc): either by manipulating
pre-designed images, or using NSBezierPath?
At the moment I personally have the following do's and dont's in my mind:
Speed – in my opinion, images would work faster (for instance, rounded
edges), controls based on images are easier to realize
Drawing quality – disputable, but sometimes lines created with
NSBezierPath look better thanks to real-time native anti-aliasing
Customization boundaries – how far we can go customizing the look&feel of
the controls? Seems that images win
CPU time consumption – images are working faster occupying less CPU
resources
Memory consumption – seems that manual drawings are better in relation to
memory usage
What would you recommend in this case?
Best Regards,
Dmitry
http://mac.eltima.com
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