On 3 Feb 2010, at 21:04, Jerry Krinock wrote: > An app I'm developing has a multi-tabbed window. Sometimes one of the Error > Recovery Options is to click into some tab and adjust control Foo. And in > many cases, either due to the complexity of it, or to help the user learn > where the control is, I want them to actually do it themselves, using the > control. > > So, when a user clicks the Recovery Option "Change Foo", I reveal the tab, > and then I'm thinking that I'd like to maybe draw a red outline around the > frame of the control. Are there any API, Apple or other frameworks that I > should consider to do something like this? > > How about that fat blue arrow which Apple uses to direct users to menu items > after searching in Help? Any way to get ahold of that?
What about using a child window? I use MAAttachedWindow for this sort of thing. http://mattgemmell.com/2007/10/03/maattachedwindow-nswindow-subclass Lots of possibilities with it as you can wrap it around an NSView instance of your choice. Regards Jonathan Mitchell Developer http://www.mugginsoft.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
