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Re: System Preferences window is wider in Leopard? How do you make a Tiger compatible UI?
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Re: System Preferences window is wider in Leopard? How do you make a Tiger compatible UI?


  • Subject: Re: System Preferences window is wider in Leopard? How do you make a Tiger compatible UI?
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:16:17 +0200

Try this. The firstRun variable makes sure the pane is only resized
once, or System Preferences will crash. Hope this helps.

- (NSView *) mainView {
    // Return a different sized view for each version of OS X
    // Leopard has a wider system prefs window than Tiger
    // Include the Carbon framework for the Gestalt function
    SInt32 MacOSXVersionNumber;
    if (Gestalt(gestaltSystemVersion, &MacOSXVersionNumber) == noErr) {
        if (MacOSXVersionNumber <= 0x01050) {
            if (firstRun == YES) {
                [prefWindow setContentSize:NSMakeSize(594.0, 354.0)];
// Resize for Tiger
                firstRun = NO;
            }
        }
    }
    return [super mainView];
}

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Dave Camp <email@hidden> wrote:
> After designing the UI for a new System Preferences pane I've discovered
> that the window size in Leopard is 75 pixels wider than it was in Tiger or
> earlier OS releases. The net result appears to be that my shiny new UI is
> clipped on the right side in Tiger. Ugh. I've sent feedback that the docs
> are incorrect here and need to be updated...
>
>  In the mean time, what is the correct way to handle this?
>
>  From what I've read on the net adding springs in IB doesn't help. Would it
> be safe for me to resize the preferences window to be 75 pixels wider on
> Tiger while my pane is visible (and size it back down when my pane is
> deselected)?
>
>  Do I have to make my UI narrower and have an obnoxious amount of dead space
> around the edges on Leopard?
>
>  Thoughts?
>
>  Dave
>
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