Hi Uli, Thanks for the answer. Do you think using Nokia (trolltech) Qt (it supports CSS controls styling) might be a bad idea? It's pretty easy to customize looks, it seems. I am not sure about the native "look and feel" of such an application though..
2012/8/20 Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net>: > On Aug 20, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> > wrote: >> essentially subclass all the controls and override drawRect: (and mouseDown: >> where needed) to get our custom graphics in there. > > One note: Many controls on the Mac are NSCell-based NSControls, in which case > you generally want to override the drawBezelWithFrame:inView, > drawWithFrame:inView: etc. methods. > > Also, I think scrollers were also a bit iffy when used as overlay scrollers: > I think drawRect: wasn't called and instead the drawKnob method was called > directly, or something like that. It's been a while. But I must have had a > bad day doing NSScroller, because I later found out simpler ways of doing > some things, so don't quote me on this and ignore it if it works for you. > > Cheers, > -- Uli Kusterer > "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." > http://www.zathras.de > _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
