StyledWindow
A flexible NSWindow subclass.
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Note: it uses Chad Weider’s extremely convenient CTGradient class.
Update: Default values are now set to something closer to Apple’s Polished Metal Window. Added some comments to AppController.m awakeFromNib method – look there to see how to set things up.
[...] I found this information when reading about StyledWindow at bithaus. Then I used it to capture one of the icons on my desktop. I assure you the background was quite busy – not white. Go ahead and give it a try. [...]
Pingback by Capture Desktop Icons with Spacebar | NSLog(); — November 5, 2006 @ 1:11 pm
Downloaded, and am indeed enjoying…
Comment by Duncan Campbell — November 5, 2006 @ 1:43 pm
Styling NSWindows in Cocoa…
Bithaus has a handy little chunk of Objective C source code up that provides programmatic capabilities to styling NSWindows. It’s modeled on Matt Gemmell’s snazzy TunesWindow class (which I use in iRooster, by the by), but appears to handle all of it…
Trackback by Aaron's UI Design Blog — November 28, 2006 @ 1:27 pm
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Is there any way to get the unified look for the title bar, yet keep the square edges on the bottom corners?
Comment by JD — December 14, 2007 @ 2:50 pm
Not without doing a fair bit more drawing yourself.
IOW: It’s not a capability of this subclass.
Comment by ganyard — December 14, 2007 @ 4:05 pm