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Re: Colored Buttons?
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Re: Colored Buttons?


  • Subject: Re: Colored Buttons?
  • From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 23:45:45 +0100

Am Sonntag den, 4. November 2001, um 22:29, schrieb email@hidden:

In any event, making a stupid button red or whatever seems like a lot of work for a result of so little consequence.

After all, this is the consequence of having a slim and elegant Library. If there were methods do change all these tiny details of the GUI, AppKit would bloat rapidly.

Motif/X11 is a good example of the opposite: There you can change everything, even without recompilation, but you need easily 30 lines of code to make a button work.


Is this a plot to encourage people to adhere to Apple's idea of what looks good?

You're free to modify whatever you want. Just dive deep enough into CoreGraphics and the Framework mechanism. Try to override -drawRect: for an NSButton. But don't complain about the huge amount of work you ask for.

Most programmers want to have a working App with OS-consistent GUI in a short time. For this, Cocoa is best.



Markus

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