On May 5, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Flavio Donadio wrote: > Quincey, > > > Now, that's the kind of answer I needed, even if it doesn't really get me > where I want! At least, it stops me from pursuing something too difficult, > impossible or undesirable. > > On 05/05/2010, at 14:17, Quincey Morris wrote: > >> And that points to your real problem -- what you want *isn't* a segmented >> control. Segment controls have their segment labels inside the segments, not >> below them, which is why (for example) what looks like a segmented control >> in Mail (Reply -- Reply All -- Forward) isn't one. > > I am sure a lot of people think it is a NSSegmentedControl. Is there a way to > know this for sure? I mean, you seem to really know it, but how did you do? >
the way to tell is to look in the preview.app package and see that there are parts of the buttons laying around as explicit separate files... >> If you want it to look like the Mail toolbar, then you can't use a segmented >> control, and you're going to have to do some work. I don't know offhand how >> to get items with no space between them. Maybe that's what toolbar groups >> are for -- I've never had occasion to use them. > > For now, I am going the "cheap trick" route and using spaces to make it look > like multiple labels, as advised by Brian Postow. That's what I did in the > first design and I can live with that. > > I'll research about NSToolbarItemGroups some other day and post the results > here. I have things to get done now. ;) > > Thanks everybody for the help (or for trying)! > > > Cheers, > Flavio_______________________________________________ > > 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/brian.postow%40acordex.com > > This email sent to brian.pos...@acordex.com > Brian Postow Senior Software Engineer Acordex Imaging Systems _______________________________________________ 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
