Re: Where is close/cancel icon used in search field & Safari etc.
Re: Where is close/cancel icon used in search field & Safari etc.
- Subject: Re: Where is close/cancel icon used in search field & Safari etc.
- From: David <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:41:16 -0400
Thats exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Randall Meadows <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:24 AM, David wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'd like to have a button that looks like the close or cancel icon
>> that is often present in Cocoa applications, but I can't find the
>> icon. I'm surprised it doesn't show up as a choice in interface
>> builder.
>>
>> Some places where this icon shows up includes:
>> - When you have multiple tabs in Safari, its the X in a circle by the
>> tab that you use to close the tab.
>> - In a standard Cocoa search field used in Finder, if you enter
>> something and want to cancel the search it shows up.
>>
>> In my application a user can initiate a long running activity that I'd
>> like to allow them to stop. I could put a STOP icon on the toolbar, or
>> I was thinking of using the X in a circle icon next to a spinning
>> progress indicator. I'm not sure which approach is more typical in Mac
>> OS X.
>
> You can access this via IB; you can set a view's image to
> NSStopProgressFreestandingTemplate (or NSStopProgressTemplate for just the X
> part). I assume (although haven't tried) that you can access this also
> through NSImage by name.
>
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