Introduction
Introduction
- Subject: Introduction
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:34:36 -0600
Hi folks,
I just signed up to this list today and just wanted to get a feel for it in terms of what others are doing.
I'm moving a app (early mathematics app for children) from Carbon to Cocoa. One of the aspects of the app is that the entire UI is custom. While the Carbon app didn't use HIView (it was built before such things existed), the Cocoa app makes use of custom NSView, NSControl and NSCell objects for my widgets. I'm doing all my work in Xcode 1.5. Mac OS X 10.3 is the baseline for my app.
I was excited to learn that I gained many things regarding accessibility for free.
First, the "speak text under mouse" feature worked well as most of my widgets either provided the text to be spoken. For those that didn't it was a simple matter of implementing accessibilityAttributeValue: (just as the ClockControl example does. see /Examples/AppKit/ClockControl/).
Also, my widgets draw their own custom focus rings. I've found that they work seamlessly with all the standard "firstResponder" APIs. Meaning that they are rendered when appropriate.
Are there other folks doing work in Cocoa? Are you doing custom user interfaces using home-grown widgets? If so, are there any pitfalls?
Finally, while discussions on Tiger are clearly a no-no, are there any plans for say an "Accessibility Kitchen"? I was at the recent "Tiger Tech Talk" in Chicago, but was disappointed that there wasn't any in-depth information on what Tiger has to offer regarding accessibility. Outside of a kitchen, are there any Apple resources I can contact with questions, or should I just contact DTS?
Thanks,
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)
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