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Re: Mail-like glossy buttons
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Re: Mail-like glossy buttons


  • Subject: Re: Mail-like glossy buttons
  • From: David Aames <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 20:07:57 +0100


Firstly, thanks for the tip! This is what I was looking for.

Secondly, let me explain how to achieve the look of Mail's buttons.

First button: It is just a normal button with the bezel style set to "Small Square Button". Set the icon position to centered and set the Icon field to the name of the image.

Second button: Set the icon like it is described above. Now for displaying the menu you have to use the button's action method where you should put something like:

[NSMenu popUpContextMenu:myMenu withEvent:[NSApp currentEvent] forView:myButton];

Regards,
David

On 3 Sep 2006, at 18:23, Spencer Salazar wrote:

Seems to me that the "Small Square" button style in Interface Builder resembles Mail's glossy buttons somewhat. With NSButton's setBezelStyle, you can use NSSmallSquareBezelStyle. This button style is Tiger only, however.

spencer

On Sep 3, 2006, at 1:10 PM, PGM wrote:

David,

As there is no "glossy-button" available through NSButton, I guess the simplest way to implement these is to make an image of a glossy button in Photoshop or some other pixel-pusher, and then use this image with a normal NSButton. This is for example how the buttons in Safari are produced. It shouldn't be hard to google for some Photoshop tutorials on creating glossy effects. Actually now I have a closer look at it, the glossy effect of the buttons you mention may be just two shades of grey that are drawn across the view.

Good luck, Patrick


On 3-Sep-06, at 12:43 PM, David Aames wrote:

Hello list,

I'm looking for some guidelines on how to implement these kind of buttons (the ones in the bottom left hand corner). I've looked through the archives and this question was asked before although I couldn't find any definite emails on the implementation details. Any suggestions on how to go about the problem are greatly appreciated. Thanks very much for your help & time.

Regards,
David
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