Hi, I'm working on a preferences panel. I want to build a compound panel like the kind seen in most mainstream apps today: a toolbar on top with "tabbed" view switching. The panel changes its appearance depending on which 32x32 toolbar icon you have selected.
I'm not sure where to start. Looking for examples, I've looked in Safari's app bundle resources dir, and I see that Safari uses separate nibs per preferences tab. When I open one of these nibs, I see a window object, and that window object has the preference tab's layout. Pretty straightforward. Of course, Safari is not open source, so I can't go any further and see how this design works. Looking at the source for Transmission, I see they've taken a different approach, which is to have one PrefsWindow.xib, and in that xib, a number of View objects, one for each tab. Open the view object representing a particular preference tab, and you see its layout. I have not studied the Transmission source yet to see how they make it all work. So we have at least 2 accepted ways of doing the tabbed preference panel thing. But I'd like a better understanding of the hows and why's overall. Can anyone point me to some Cocoa programming guide docs, or programming topics docs, on tabbed preference panels? (Are they even called "tabbed preference panels?") Thanks, -s _______________________________________________ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
