Re: Preference dialog
Re: Preference dialog
- Subject: Re: Preference dialog
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:10:24 EST
When ever I come accross someone looking for a iChat/Safari/Mail type
preference dialog I've been forwarding a much smaller and easier to impliment version
like the Omni Preference Example and it doesn't require a degree to figure
out how to use, it has nice class documentation as well.
http://iratescotsman.com/ftp/source/ssprefscontroller.tar.gz
In a message dated 02/29/2004 15:03:28, email@hidden writes:
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On 29 Feb 2004, at 6:39 pm, Steve Palmer wrote:
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> I'm looking for some sample code that implements a Preferences dialog
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> like the one in Safari or Mail. I've seen an implementation from
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> Omnigroup but that's a huge amount of code with a lot of dependencies
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> on other part of the Omni framework that I don't want to start from
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> that. I'm really just looking for something very simple.
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Don't be intimidated by the size of the Omni frameworks. I haven't
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looked at the Preferences subproject, but it's usually not difficult to
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slice chunks off the frameworks and snip off any extraneous
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dependencies. On the other hand, UKPrefsPanel is probably your best bet
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for ease of use.
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Mail and Safari's preferences windows use multiple nibs. Each nib
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represents one "pane" of the prefs window. The nib contains a window
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with its controls grouped in an NSBox. It seems that this box view is
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added as a subview to the preferences window when its corresponding
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icon is clicked, and the window resized with setFrame:display:animate:.
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Definitely not simple, and probably only worthwhile if you're dealing
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with a hefty slab of user preferences.
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> I could have a try and writing my own but it seems like this style of
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> preferences is fairly ubiquitous that I'm a little surprised that it
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> isn't part of the Cocoa AppKit framework.
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Stick around. You'll come across quite a few ubiquitous features which
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aren't provided ready-cooked in the AppKit. That's Cocoa-biz.
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-Jeremy
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