Re: ProgressIndicator: Chasing Arrow missing in cocoa?
Re: ProgressIndicator: Chasing Arrow missing in cocoa?
- Subject: Re: ProgressIndicator: Chasing Arrow missing in cocoa?
- From: Mike Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:39:13 -0500
On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 07:54 AM, cocoa-dev-
email@hidden wrote:
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 03:31:06 -0800
Subject: Re: ProgressIndicator: Chasing Arrow missing in cocoa?
Cc: email@hidden
To: Allan Odgaard <email@hidden>
From: Kurt Revis <email@hidden>
On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 06:10 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
I'm writing a program where I'd like to signal progress by using the
two arrows which twirl (seen in Mail.app when fetching letters) and
which can be clicked for further detailed status information.
However I can't find this element in IB nor the Cocoa class
documentation. Is this a Carbon-only element?
No, it isn't a standard control in Cocoa yet, although it really should
be by now. Apple have said that they'll add it someday. If you want to
hasten this process, file a bug.
You can use the Carbon chasing arrows but you have to make a custom view
for them. OmniAppKit has an example of Carbon controls in AppKit views.
And does it mean that Mail.app and OmniWeb are both written using
Carbon?
They're certainly both Cocoa apps. They just implement the control
themselves. You can download the source for OmniWeb's
implementation--it's a class called OAChasingArrows in OmniAppKit.
They rotate a bitmap which looks rather nice.
If you combine the Carbon control view with the chasing arrows view, you
can hack together a view for Carbon chasing arrows in an AppKit view.
http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/Source/MacOSX/Frameworks/
--
Kurt Revis
email@hidden
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