Re: metallized interface
Re: metallized interface
- Subject: Re: metallized interface
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:20:09 +1100
You aren't supposed to do that, as per the Aqua User Interface
Guidelines for Jaguar. They also state that it IS acceptable to have
both Aqua/Metal windows mixed in an application. Only the main window
should use the Metal interface. In any case, it is probably possible
to create a subclass of NSOpenPanel or NSSavePanel that would take on
this look. There's almost certainly no way to do it all around the map
at the same time.
You'll probably find, however, that mixing metal and Aqua interfaces in
the one program very quickly destroys any consistency or app unity. It
used to be that the guidelines were there specifically to avoid this -
now they advocate it. Move or dig your heels in, as you choose.
Additionally, I would take the fact that the standard sheets/panels
cannot be metal as a hint that if you need these things, you probably
shouldn't be using metal anyway. Appliances don't pop down translucent
floating windows when you turn them off without saving.
Wade Tregaskis
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