Re: Office 2003 (Windows) style menus
Re: Office 2003 (Windows) style menus
- Subject: Re: Office 2003 (Windows) style menus
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:29:43 +0000
I think what he's actually after is to place icons next to the title
of each menu item in the app's menu bar.
As far as I am aware, it's not possible to do this in Interface
Builder :(
However, you can call setImage: on each men item as you are loading
from nib. I'm fairly certain this will work, although I've only
tried it on the menus of a popup button myself.
Mike.
On 19 Jan 2006, at 05:29, John Stiles wrote:
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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