Re: How do I create apps with the Pro grey interfaces ?
Re: How do I create apps with the Pro grey interfaces ?
- Subject: Re: How do I create apps with the Pro grey interfaces ?
- From: Jerry <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:34:57 +0100
On 27 Jul 2006, at 15:39, CoLo0LoGo wrote:
Can you say the same about garageband? google earth? Delicious Library
Well...since you ask....yes. I find GarageBand's non-standard
interface annoying (why the wooden window?). Google Earth has a
really nasty cross-platform GUI that puts me off using it, and that's
the problem: [rash generalization coming up] Mac users like their
user interface consistent. Although perhaps logically I shouldn't,
I've many times preferred applications with a consistent UI over
those with a custom one. Ones with a weird interface usually get
binned even before I've explored the File menu.
This is getting off-topic for the Xcode list though.
To keep it on topic: You're probably going to have to draw all the
controls yourself - that's how all the apps like GarageBand/Safari/
iiTunes etc. do it - their Resources folders are full of TIFF files
for all the different button states. If you're writing in Carbon, you
need to add a kEventControlDraw handler for each control or write
control subclasses. If you're in Cocoa, you do it in whatever way
Cocoa does it :-)
Jerry
I'm not trying to agument the use of IB, I just want to learn how to
customize my interface to my style through IB if at all possible ..
On 7/27/06, Syd Polk <email@hidden> wrote:
On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:56 AM, CoLo0LoGo wrote:
> e) Something like that but just in the one app without having to
force
> a user to install ShapeShifter would be a perfect mix..
>
> The fight over keeping apps standard IB style is fine, but I see
a lot
> of apps with small edits in their apps that add to the interface
> without changing the user-ability simplification that mac apps are
> known for..
>
> Otherwise if all I used was IB the app would suffer from looking
> acting and being the same as LOTS of other apps on the market as
it is
> now/...
And what's the problem with that? Your app should be able to
distinguish itself by what it does. If it is significantly different
from other apps in how it looks, your users will just be confused.
>
>
>
> On 7/27/06, Jerry <email@hidden> wrote:
>> a) Don't do it unless you have a *really* good reason. Mac
users hate
>> that.
>> b) Write it in Java and use Swing?
>> c) Write custom controls for everything
>> d) Persuade Apple that you have an important pro-level application
>> and they might let you use ProKit (or so I was told at WWDC).
>> e) Use something like ShapeShifter to change the uI of the whole
>> machine. (We had film-studio customers who work in dark rooms with
>> the brightness turned up really high and they needed a dark
interface
>> to avoid being dazzled. This worked for them).
>>
>>
>> On 27 Jul 2006, at 14:24, CoLo0LoGo wrote:
>>
>> > see I knew it.. someone told me otherwise... I knew they were
>> wrong
>> >
>> > Anyway, what is the other method for changing icons and
interfaces
>> > background that you know of ?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 7/27/06, Jerry <email@hidden> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 27 Jul 2006, at 14:11, CoLo0LoGo wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I need to know how apple creates interfaces with the grey
>> style and
>> >> > smaller different slider bar icons among other items..
>> >> >
>> >> > Any small tutorials around.. ? Note I have not read the
entire
>> >> Xcode
>> >> > manual yet,, still have to print it all out,, suckers huge !
>> >>
>> >> They use a private framework called ProKit. You're not allowed
>> to use
>> >> it.
>> >>
>> >> Jerry
>> >>
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