On Aug 20, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Gregory Weston wrote: > Bill Bumgarner wrote: > >> Preference panes are not designed to be embedded into applications other >> than the System Preferences application. Even if you were to make it work >> (which would require duplicating all of the internal functionality of the >> System Preferences application), you are setting yourself up for a >> maintenance and testing nightmare in that System Preferences' internal >> implementation details may change with any version of the OS, including the >> one-off interim versions that sometimes ship with new hardware. >> >> I.e. don't do that. > > Is it fair to say that this caution is about the OP's specific goal of using > Apple's prefPanes within another app in that they may have been custom-built > to play nice with a custom version of System Preferences? > > Or does the documentation at > <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/PreferencePanes/PreferencePanes.html> > need to be updated? > > Oh, wait. Better question: > > Is > <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/PreferencePanes/Tasks/OtherApps.html> > simply wrong? > > "You can reuse preference panes intended for System Preferences just like the > Mac OS X Setup Assistant does with the Date & Time preference pane."
Yup -- I was channeling Pre-Snow Leopard pref panes. I was totally wrong. b.bum _______________________________________________ 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
