Re: Animated toolbar
Re: Animated toolbar
- Subject: Re: Animated toolbar
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:11:26 -0500
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Christian Graus
<email@hidden> wrote:
> In my app, I want a toolbar like the one at the bottom of OSX, with icons
> that resize as I move the mouse over them.
The user interface element you're referring to is called the Dock.
> I want the whole toolbar to hide
> and to scroll up into view from the bottom of my window when I move my mouse
> over the little edge that would be always visible.
This is a great way to frustrate users, unless your window is
fullscreen. Fitts's Law is the principle by which the Dock gets away
with auto-hiding: since the mouse stops at the edge of the screen, the
area which activates the auto-hiding feature is effectively infinite
in area. Your window doesn't have that luxury unless it's fullscreen.
> I've been googling for
> an example of a list of buttons that resize as the mouse moves over them and
> also trying to work out what I should use as my base and how to add it to
> the xib.
The typical approach to developing a feature like this is not Google
-- it's understanding the framework. If your first resort is asking
Google "how do I do Complicated Thing X" and, after failing to find an
answer, turn around and ask a mailing list the same question, you
don't understand what you're trying to accomplish.
> I appreciate any suggestions, this is all new ground for me. I
> have the Hillegass book, I'm going to dig into that, I am hoping it will at
> least tell me how to add the child window, but I am pretty sure it doesn't
> cover the sizing stuff.
And here we have reached the root of the problem. You have bitten off
far more than you can chew. You've got an Everest-sized problem and
are looking for step-by-step instructions on leveling it.
--Kyle Sluder
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