On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Development wrote:

Is it possible to create a tabview who's tabviewitems have a custom look, For instance, the label is horizontal when the tabs are on the side, or can have icons? If so could I get a pointer to some info as I cant seem to find any.

Rather than subclassing NSTabView (since it does not really expose any mechanism to override tab drawing), custom tabs can be implemented by hiding the NSTabView's tab buttons and utilizing a completely separate custom "tab bar" view containing your buttons. The custom view would then oversee the actual NSTabView's selection, set as its delegate to monitor outside selection changes, and would itself switch to the proper NSTabViewItems when clicked.

For some examples of this approach, take a look at what we do in Camino: <http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/camino/src/browser/BrowserTabBarView.mm >

And see the excellent PSMTabBarControl:
<http://code.google.com/p/maccode/source/browse/trunk/Utilities/PSMTabBarControl/source/ >

-Murph
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