Re: Smart way to get "etched" borders in Leopard
Re: Smart way to get "etched" borders in Leopard
- Subject: Re: Smart way to get "etched" borders in Leopard
- From: Jesse Grosjean <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:29:25 -0500
Chris,
Thanks for your response. I got busy and then was away, so I didn't
have time to try things out until today. The good news is that
[NSCell backgroundStyle] looks really useful, but unfortunately it
doesn't do what I want in this case.
I'll try to explain myself better this time. Here's a Leopard
screenshot of the bottom of a safari window. You can see that right
below the scroll view there are two lines that form a etching of some
sort. From top to bottom, a dark (black?) line followed by a lighter
line.
http://hogbaysoftware.com/files/leapardscreen.png
You see these lines all over the place in apples new iLife, iCal,
etc. I've done these "etched" borders before by subclassing NSBox I
think, but that seems pretty heavy weight. And I was always left
guessing on the exact colors that I should use.
So I'm wondering what the best way to achieve this effect in a
Leopard only app is. Does anyone have suggestions?
Thanks,
Jesse
On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:33 AM, email@hidden wrote:
Can someone tell me what the smart way to get etched (not sure if
that's
the right term) borders for a Leopard only app. My app will used a
Textured Window, and I want to have borders that look like the
borders in
iChat at the top and bottom of the scroll view.
Like in the bottom bar of Address Book, too?
This is documented in the Application Kit Release Notes (10.5)
under "Text and image effects: -[NSCell backgroundStyle]":
For example, if you place an borderless NSTextField directly on
the window surface you will likely want to have a controller call
setBackgroundStyle:NSBackgroundStyleRaised on the text cell to get
engraved text.
Hope this helps!
-- Chris
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