Im not trying to disregard the HIG. The panel is the basis for an inspector(s) for properties for a drawing application. Looking at other well known applications, it seemed there is precedence. If that precedence is wrong, I won't follow it. Please advise.
-Tony On Aug 2, 2010, at 2:58 PM, John Joyce wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Tony Romano wrote: > >> I have an NSPanel and I want to change the look of the min button and >> completely hide the resize button. The min button I want to make into a >> bezel style of a disclosure triangle. I am using this line of code to >> access the min button but it returns nil in my controllers' windowDidLoad. >> >> NSButton *minButton = [[self window] >> standardWindowButton:NSMiniaturizableWindowMask]; >> >> Just as a test, I changed to style mask to NSClosableWindowMask and it does >> return the correct theme widget. Not sure why the min mask is not returning >> the correct widget. Also, any comment on the approach or should I be >> looking at a completely different path? I know one alternatively is to >> completely write my own header and draw things the way I want. >> >> The second question is, how do I completely hide the resize button, it's >> disabled via IB, but the button still shows(albeit disabled). >> >> Thanks, >> -Tony > Please avoid confusing users if at all possible by adhering to the Human > Interface Guidelines. > Make sure your app really has valid reasons to > One reason this is not easy to do is so that we don't end up with crazy > thoughtless interfaces as often as other platforms do. > > The reason these appear but are disabled is that standard window and panel > behavior includes this and the user needs to see it is grayed out to > understand intuitively that that button is currently disabled. > > That said, check out the sample code for Core Data Stickies to see how to > build your own window styling. > > Again, read the HIG, adhere to it and common Mac application paradigms or > users will just hate your application. > > One business case for HIG adherence is reduced support costs because your > users will intuit the interface more... > > -Tony _______________________________________________ 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
