Re: Safari's EtchedStringView class
Re: Safari's EtchedStringView class
- Subject: Re: Safari's EtchedStringView class
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 10:05:51 -0400
On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 08:08 US/Eastern, Andrew Garber wrote:
To the Apple Developers...
Is there any chance I could get my hands on Safari's EtchedStringView
class? Or maybe some hints on how to implement it? I'm writing an app
that uses a "metal" interface (it has a textured window), and I want
to make any text displayed on the metal surface to have exactly the
same "etched" look that text has in Safari's favourites bar. Think you
could help me (and other developers working on achieving the standard
"metal" look) out?
While I agree that it would be nice to have some "official" Apple code
to do this, it doesn't look like it would be too hard to imitate. From
looking at it in Pixie, it looks like all that's being done is that
first the text is drawn in a light grey color, and then it is drawn in
black, offset vertically by 1 pixel. Then, when it's highlighted, just
invert the text, and draw the background in a darker grey (Pixie tells
me that it's 0.4314)
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