Re: 10.3 feature questions: Search, Split buttons?
Re: 10.3 feature questions: Search, Split buttons?
- Subject: Re: 10.3 feature questions: Search, Split buttons?
- From: Prachi Gauriar <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:21:30 -0600
On Nov 19, 2003, at 7:29 PM, Stuart Halloway wrote:
Hi all,
A friend of mine picked up the notion (from some conference keynote or
some such) that 10.3 would include the following two features:
1. An architecture for adding search to Cocoa applications.
Yep, it's called SearchKit. According to the documentation:
"Search Kit is a powerful and streamlined C language framework for
indexing and searching text in most human languages. Formerly known as
AIAT (the Apple Information Access Toolkit) or by its code name V-Twin,
Search Kit is the Mac OS X engine that provides fast content searching
in Finder, Address Book, Apple Help, and Mail. You can take advantage
of Search Kit to provide similar functionality and powerful
information-access capabilities within your Mac OS X application."
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Reference/
SearchKit/index.html>
For your search fields, you should use the new NSSearchField class,
which is similar to the search fields in Safari, Mail, or Address Book.
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
SearchFields/index.html>
2. A 'split button' widget (the thing you use to select tabs in a tab
view, but without the tab view).
This is NSSegmentedControl. Unfortunately, it's not available directly
in IB yet, but if you want to know about them, check out:
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
SegmentedControl/index.html>
BTW, It'd be great if you filed a bug on how it isn't in IB. The more
bugs they get, the more likely they'll fix it.
HTH.
-Prachi
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