Re: Creating Carbon bevel picture buttons w/Interface Builder
Re: Creating Carbon bevel picture buttons w/Interface Builder
- Subject: Re: Creating Carbon bevel picture buttons w/Interface Builder
- From: Bryan Pietrzak <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:18:03 -0500
If anyone from the Interface Builder team is interested.. I filed a bug
for this:
rdar://3653738
It's probably partly a carbon HLTB team bug and probably partly IB. But
hey, I filed a bug :)
Bryan
On May 12, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Bryan Pietrzak wrote:
I'm reposting this here on the Xcode list as it seems that this list
may be more appropriate for Interface Builder questions. It doesn't
seem to me that this is directly an issue of CW vs. Xcode, but simply
a question of how to use TIFF or PNG files in Interface Builder for
Bevel Button controls.
Thanks
Bryan
Begin forwarded message:
On Sep 25, 2003, at 7:36 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
Hello all,
We've been incrementally migrating away from using resources in
favor of
nibs/ Interface Builder in our Carbon apps (no "stone knives and
bearskins"
jokes, please :-)). One of the most basic tasks that's been a bit
awkward is
composing new bevel buttons that contain pictures. IB gives us these
choices:
Icon Suites, cicns or PICTs.
Since Resorcerer no longer has a Icon/cicn editor that works in OSX
(2.4.1,
the version that works best natively in 10, just puts up
"Sorry, Internal bug. Editor not yet supported; please use the
Classic
Version",
and it's not likely to ever *be* supported), I thought I'd ask what
mechanism
and editing apps others are using with IB for Carbon (and
CodeWarrior, if that
has an impact).
We can use PICTs and insert them into our shrinking rsrc files with
Resorcerer, but I was wondering if there were newer approaches:
-Can PNG/TIFF files be turned into icon refs/ registered icons? Is
there a
straightforward tutorial/ documentation /sample code on doing this
(the icon
registration process)? I remember lots of traffic/thrashing about
this long
ago on carbon-dev, and lost track of the thread.
-Does someone have a better icon resource editor to recommend, with
a simple
UI, works natively in OSX, and that *doesn't* assume we're Photoshop
gurus?
Price isn't a grave concern- We'll trade money for productivity,
gladly.
IS there *any* method w/CodeWarrior projects (organization of files
in a
directory, etc) to get the "Test Interface" function to display the
pictures
for the buttons? Does this function display button images for Carbon
apps if
we were to migrate to ProjectBuilder/XCode? Does it work at all for
Carbon?
Thanks for any pointers...
Have the answers to this question gotten any easier since last Fall?
I looked at the archives and saw Larry's responses, but we're
basically in the same boat.
We want to put a bunch of TIFFs or PNGs in the Resources folder of
our app and then create various controls (mostly bevel buttons) in
Interface Builder that reference the images stored in the Resources
folder of our app's bundle.
This seems like a very basic need and it seems like we're missing
something really obvious in Interface Builder. It can't be that
convoluted...can it?
Like Jeffrey, we are using carbon and CW (9.2) and want to move away
from Resorcerer and resource file resources in favor of IB and the
Resources folder of the app package.
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