Jeremy, I would go with a toolbar that swaps views.
I think tab views are a fine control but before NSViewController, they were used in a tab-less style in order to make it easy to swap views. I think that approach is outdated. I would use a simple toolbar which you can setup in IB and swap your various views. Use NSViewControllers to manage the views and resize the window accordingly. I haven't looked at preferences controllers out there but it's such a simple thing to load a view. You hook everything up to shared defaults and for all preferences, read the value from defaults. You only have to deal with things if a default change needs to take place immediately. Once you have a window that loads views and sizes itself, you just make views and add buttons. Hope this helps Marc El Jun 20, 2010, a las 5:53 PM, Jeremy Matthews escribió: > In my project I have some preferences in a tabview style, but I'd like to > move towards a more mac-like interface for this (Safari, Mail)...probably > using NSToolbar. > > I've seen examples (usually pretty dated) that reference a few different > styles: > > 1) Tabless NSTabView using a Toolbar with actions (selectTabViewItem:Blah) > 2) Some third-party frameworks and code (BWToolkit - buggy, > SS_PrefsController, DBPrefsWindowController, etc) > 3) Private APIs from Apple (NSPrefernces) > 4) Toolbar-only approach > > I'd read through the archives...but see mostly older posts, so I'd like to > see what people are doing these days... > > I was wondering about the experiences out there...and any best practices > recommendations. I see a lot of projects using the last method, and using > code more than IB to put it together - love to know what people are using out > there! > > Thanks, > jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > Cocoa-students mailing list > cocoa-stude...@mylist.net > http://mylist.net/listinfo/cocoa-students _______________________________________________ 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
