NSWindow. Very flexible stuff. It’s used *everywhere*. I mean it, everywhere, look for yourself, hit cmd-shift-4 and then press the spacebar. Move that camera icon around, over Desktop icons, Dock items, Menu Extras, etc, etc. Everywhere.

Pretty versatile.

But most of us still just use what IB provides. Matt Gemmell released TunesWindow a while back and it provided a great solution to making something a bit more unique. I just thought it could be even more flexible so I built StyledWindow based on it. (thanks Matt!)

And since John Gruber delivered the obituary on the Apple HIG at C4 (and everyone is talking about it: Daniel Jalkut, Uli Kusterer, Michael Tsai, Scott Stevenson, et al), it seems time to release this so everyone can now define their own HIG.

Download and Enjoy.

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.

So here it is, the inaugural post for a new site. I’ve had this domain for years, finally it’s time to do something with it.

Seemed like something interesting to do on my birthday.