On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:28 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:

> 
> On Sep 1, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote:
> 
>> Top left, the traffic lights have been turned to the vertical. Is this
>> something new or was this easy to do before? Is it just a custom
>> implementation, or?
> 
> If you miniaturized the iTunes 9 window, the window controls are vertical.  
> Not sure if this has always been the case or not.  It's pretty easy to 
> implement that kind of thing.  NSWindow has a -standardWindowButton: method 
> that will give you a close button, zoom button, etc.
> 
> -jcr
> 
Yes the miniplayer window has always had the vertical dots. 
This was always an example of deviation from the HIG.
For the miniplayer, at least, it made some sense.

As for building your own custom windows, check out one of the Stickies sample 
code projects for examples on how to implement custom windows and controls, but 
please be sure to only do so if it really makes sense for the app and the user 
and avoid causing user confusion with the application.
Conventional paradigms are best for the user and easier to support for the 
developer ;)

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