Re: Tabbed preference panels
Re: Tabbed preference panels
- Subject: Re: Tabbed preference panels
- From: "Matt Ball" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:12:46 -0700
It's also worth noting that Dave Batton has a class+tutorial on his site
that takes care of this for you:
http://www.mere-mortal-software.com/blog/details.php?d=2007-03-14
However, it would probably be best to roll your own implementation at least
once, so you know how it works under the hood. Then, in future projects,
save some time and just drop in a ready-to-go implementation.
Also, I'd recommend putting each view in a separate NIB and loading each as
it's needed. This saves you from loading things that you don't need and
should cut down on memory usage a bit (If the user only opens view A,
there's no reason to load the views for B, C, D, E, etc).
- Matt Ball
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Greg Titus <email@hidden> wrote:
> You may also want to take a look at OmniAppKit's OAPreferences
> implementation: <http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/>.
>
> Hope this helps,
> - Greg
>
>
> On Aug 22, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Sumner Trammell wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm working on a preferences panel. I want to build a compound
>> panel like the kind seen in most mainstream apps today: a toolbar on
>> top with "tabbed" view switching. The panel changes its appearance
>> depending on which 32x32 toolbar icon you have selected.
>>
>> I'm not sure where to start. Looking for examples, I've looked in
>> Safari's app bundle resources dir, and I see that Safari uses separate
>> nibs per preferences tab. When I open one of these nibs, I see a
>> window object, and that window object has the preference tab's layout.
>> Pretty straightforward. Of course, Safari is not open source, so I
>> can't go any further and see how this design works.
>>
>> Looking at the source for Transmission, I see they've taken a
>> different approach, which is to have one PrefsWindow.xib, and in that
>> xib, a number of View objects, one for each tab. Open the view object
>> representing a particular preference tab, and you see its layout. I
>> have not studied the Transmission source yet to see how they make it
>> all work.
>>
>> So we have at least 2 accepted ways of doing the tabbed preference
>> panel thing. But I'd like a better understanding of the hows and why's
>> overall. Can anyone point me to some Cocoa programming guide docs, or
>> programming topics docs, on tabbed preference panels? (Are they even
>> called "tabbed preference panels?")
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -s
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