Re: System Preferences window is wider in Leopard? How do you make a Tiger compatible UI?
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: "Tom Harrington" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:35:08 -0600
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:06 AM, 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)?
Probably not a good idea. Although the window width differs from
Tiger to Leopard, it's not supposed to be a resizable window. If
you're going to run on Tiger you'll need to live with the narrower
window.
I was pretty annoyed when I found out that Leopard's System
Preferences wouldn't resize the pref pane view, even if you had
designed it to be resizable. But that's the way it is.
> Do I have to make my UI narrower and have an obnoxious amount of dead space
> around the edges on Leopard?
Maybe. You can find out what the current window width is once your
preference pane has been loaded into the window. Using something like
"[[[self mainView] superview] frame]" would give you the current
width, and if desired you could adjust mainView's frame appropriately.
This would mean designing to Tiger's pref pane width, and then
expanding when running on Leopard. Best to stick with looking up the
size instead of the OS version, because who knows what might happen in
10.6?
--
Tom Harrington
email@hidden
AIM: atomicbird1
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