Re: Drawing customized window
Re: Drawing customized window
- Subject: Re: Drawing customized window
- From: Corbin Dunn <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:03:09 -0700
On Oct 31, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Nick <email@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Corbin, it works great (unfortunately I can't draw the gradient depending on the window size (so it's always white on top and black on bottom, no matter how high the window is, for example), but I guess that still gives possibilities for skinning)..
> I will join the Iain's question.. Is it possible to somehow alter the color of the title text? Or at least set the title to @"", and draw manually NSAttributedString in that title area?
No; there is no way to customize the title; please log a bug requesting the ability to do this.
corbin
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> 2012/11/1 iain <email@hidden>
> Hi Corbin, sorry for semi-hijacking the thread
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> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Corbin Dunn <email@hidden> wrote:
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> > I am wondering if anyone created customized windows like this or reverse
> > engineered this NSThemeFrame? Maybe there are any articles on the internet
> > that I have missed (actually the link I gave in the beginning is the only
> > one I have found on this topic). Somehow Apple's iCalendar works pretty
> > fast on 10.7, while my app doesn't..
>
> Calendar uses the public API of setBackgroundColor: on the window, and sets it to a pattern color. That is it.
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> When you use setBackgroundColor: on the window, is there a way to get the titlebar text to draw in a different colour? When you set the background to a dark colour, the titlebar text is still drawn dark with a light highlight so it looks quite bad.
>
> thanks,
> iain
>
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