On 7 Feb 2009, at 8:43 am, Christian Graus wrote:
In my app, I want a toolbar like the one at the bottom of OSX, with
icons
that resize as I move the mouse over them. I want the whole toolbar
to hide
and to scroll up into view from the bottom of my window when I move
my mouse
over the little edge that would be always visibl
You need to have a serious heart-to-heart with your boss and rethink
this. If you persist, your app is going to suck on Mac, period. If
your boss isn't into aesthetics but at least can understand his
"bottom line" than at least he should get sucky App == poor sales.
Consider this: many users, myself included, place their system dock at
the bottom of their screen, and set it to auto-hide. Even if you
violate the Mac user experience by pushing your window right out to
the screen edges like a Windows app, every time they mouse down to the
bottom they are going to get two docks - yours and the system one on
top (the system dock is designed to come up on top of all apps). Your
own dock is just not going to be clickable or even easily readable. If
they have their dock set to be always visible, and your window is
sized to allow for the dock, the 'target' for them to get your dock
showing is going to be, what, 2 pixels wide? Recipe for constant
irritation and frustration.
There is a built-in toolbar system that fits the Mac user experience -
NSToolbar. You'd be far better off seeing if that will fit your needs,
even if it doesn't necessarily "look the same" as the Windows version
(by the way, that's another thing bosses often insist on, not
appearing to realise that no 'real world' user ever uses their app
side-by-side on two different platforms, so they won't see or care
about these differences - they will, on the other hand, very much care
that the app is a badly ported Windows app that doesn't fit in with
all their others).
--Graham
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