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Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item
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Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item


  • Subject: Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:27:35 -0800

On Jan 27, 2012, at 8:51 AM, David Catmull wrote:

> I've looked into this too, and haven't found an answer yet. According to this article, Xcode used to use a floating window trick:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6169255/is-it-possible-to-draw-in-the-label-area-of-nstoolbar
> ..but it doesn't anymore. Also note that Instruments has a full-height toolbar item, and that toolbar is fully customizable, so whatever tricks they're using they were able to make it behave like a normal toolbar item - cmd-draggable, in customize sheet, etc.

There's probably a private API for that. The bad news is that Apple apps use a lot of private APIs :( The good news is that these APIs often become public in later OS releases, especially if developers file bugs clamoring for them (hint hint).

—Jens

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