Re: How to make a UI like in Mail?
Re: How to make a UI like in Mail?
- Subject: Re: How to make a UI like in Mail?
- From: Thomas Engelmeier <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:04:00 +0100
On 12.03.2008, at 23:54, Thomas Wickl wrote:
I´m new to Cocoa and I really need a hint in UI Design. How can I
create this Panel like it is shown in a lot of
Application like Mail?
That is not a panel (a panel is a window with a small title bar), it
is a "source list", a special case of a "outline view".
Starting with Leopard, you can use the system NSOutlineView. For Tiger
there are some opensource implementations floating around.
What you won't get with most implementations are the "unread message"
badges.
And also how do they make this Bar at the Bottom?
The only real answer to that is "Use FScript to find out". http://www.fscript.org
. You'll need to download a separate version of "FScript Anywhere" for
Leopard. Apple is usually not eating it's own dog food, Apple apps
notoriously use their own UI implementation.
If you are interested how _you_ can achieve something similar, there
is a chance to build a view containing some NSButtons with gradient
look and either add manually the pulldown functionality to them or use
an NSPopupButton and tinker with the menu contents so it always shows
the icon and not the selected item.
The NSActionTemplate and NSAddTemplate should also be handy. Many
goodies (gradient look, system provided images) are Leopard only.
Regards,
Tom_E
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