Re: How do I display a path like in PathFinder 4, the file path bar
Re: How do I display a path like in PathFinder 4, the file path bar
- Subject: Re: How do I display a path like in PathFinder 4, the file path bar
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:27:01 -0400
Alan:
These things are usually created with a single-pixel-wide gradient
image, stretched across your view.
To reproduce what you're seeing, I might subclass an NSMatrix, set
to have one row and use an NSButtonCell with its -image and -
alternateImage set (so you can get the separator line and reverse
"pressed" gradient). That'd be simplest, IMO. Maybe someone else has
a better suggestion.
Of course you can draw the gradient with code, but I find it
easier to use an image. If you *do* use an image, make sure it is a
vector-based format so it scales nicely -- that'll future-proof it
for large/scaled displays.
Hope this helps.
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I.S.
On Jul 20, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Alan Smith wrote:
Hi y'all,
In PathFinder 4 there is a bar near the top of the file browsing
window, just below that tab bar. It is a pretty bar that looks a
little like a tab bar except it is continuous and the "tabs" are right
next to each other.
http://cocoatech.com/pf4/images/tabs.php
I would like to reproduce this. When the user continues to open
another folder, a button/tab will be added on to the end of the
existing items in the bar. When the user clicks on one of those
buttons I will be notified and act accordingly. Also the buttons from
the point of the clicked button on, would be taken off.
I know that PathFinder is "open source" but they don't release all of
it. How could they make it OS and Shareware?
I've never subclassed NSCell or anything like that before but I would
feel prepared to do so if someone could point me in the right
direction.
Many thanks, Alan
P.S. I want this code to run on 10.2 at least.
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