Re: Is the button group in Safari a general widget ?
Re: Is the button group in Safari a general widget ?
- Subject: Re: Is the button group in Safari a general widget ?
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:47:56 -0600
On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:20 AM, Aaron Lewis <email@hidden> wrote:
> I've seen a lot of apps like Safari. 5 buttons in the bottom
>
> Is that a common widget? I couldn't find it on google
(Notes ~ “widget” doesn’t have the same meaning in iOS/OS X frameworks that it does on other platforms. You mean “control.” Jonathan Hull just suggested the UIToolbar family, which is an excellent suggestion. I wrote this assuming you were asking about OS X. Because you hadn’t said otherwise. The fundamentals about what’s available, what has to be custom made, and how to ask questions are the same.)
Perhaps you could put what you want to do less telegraphically?
Five buttons on the bottom is not like [desktop] Safari, we can’t use “a lot of apps” as a guide to examples, and if you’re talking about the design of your own application, how many there are and where doesn’t matter. Buttons exist. You can have five of them. You can put them anywhere, singly or together. That is common.
I am guessing that you mean something like NSSegmentedControl [if AppKit]. Apple [often] has a special appearance for segmented controls in its own applications, which are built with private code.
Many developers want that look, but it’s not in AppKit [UIKit]. You have to make your own, or find a third-party library that gives you what you want. Maybe you can get better search results if you try the terms “segmented control Mac”. [Or “… iOS”.]
— F
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