Re: Office 2003 (Windows) style menus
Re: Office 2003 (Windows) style menus
- Subject: Re: Office 2003 (Windows) style menus
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:29:36 -0800
You can easily make a title-bar-less window with buttons in it that
trigger actions; the buttons can contain icons, words or both. You can
easily show that window right below the menubar. Is that sufficient? I
don't see where subclassing is necessary.
FWIW, that sort of interface is not really encouraged in Mac OS X. You
will find that almost no applications do this, because it is not very
Mac-like. (Office does, but it is the exception, not the rule.) I'd
suggest using a regular toolbar on each window. Try looking at Apple's
built-in application suites, like Pages or iCal or something, for good
examples of a Mac-like UI. The Mac does not have a button for Save; it
has a menu item, in the File menu. This is what users will expect,
because it's consistent in every other application.
Rick Langschultz wrote:
I was wondering if someone could tell me if there would be a way for
me to develop Office 2003 and XP style menus for my Cocoa Application.
If you don't understand what I mean let me explain:
On my windows computer when I want to save an Microsoft Word 2003
document there are icons next to the menus, icons that easily tell
users what action will be performed. The save menu item has a little
diskette by it.
Can I subclass NSToolbar or something to do this?
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