Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 847
Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 847
- Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 847
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:58:11 -0500
On Aug 20, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Gregory Weston wrote:
> Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>
>> Preference panes are not designed to be embedded into applications other than the System Preferences application. Even if you were to make it work (which would require duplicating all of the internal functionality of the System Preferences application), you are setting yourself up for a maintenance and testing nightmare in that System Preferences' internal implementation details may change with any version of the OS, including the one-off interim versions that sometimes ship with new hardware.
>>
>> I.e. don't do that.
>
> Is it fair to say that this caution is about the OP's specific goal of using Apple's prefPanes within another app in that they may have been custom-built to play nice with a custom version of System Preferences?
>
> Or does the documentation at <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/PreferencePanes/PreferencePanes.html> need to be updated?
>
> Oh, wait. Better question:
>
> Is <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/PreferencePanes/Tasks/OtherApps.html> simply wrong?
>
> "You can reuse preference panes intended for System Preferences just like the Mac OS X Setup Assistant does with the Date & Time preference pane."
Yup -- I was channeling Pre-Snow Leopard pref panes. I was totally wrong.
b.bum
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