On Oct 31, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Nick <eveningn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I am attempting to create an application with custom looking windows > (similar to new iCalendar on mountain lion, or QuickTime player). I am > targeting systems from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. > > So far I've been customizing the window using the idea described at > http://parmanoir.com/Custom_NSThemeFrame > (basically I set the window to be Textured, and swizzle the drawRect > method of the [[window contentView] superview] (which is an instance of > NSThemeFrame), then draw some nice gradient in that new drawRect > implementation, and a custom gradiented toolbar. > The advantage of this method is that I do not have to bother with resizing > (even the resizing mark in the bottom right corner is drawn automatically) > and manually drawing titlebar buttons (albeit they have a gray shadow, > despite i need a black one). Another advantage is that NSToolbar works > normally with it, and looks nicely with this customly drawn theme frame.
Don't swizzle the theme frame drawRect: -- that won't always work (as you noticed) and isn't supported. > > This works fine on Leopard and Snow Leopard, but not on Lion/Mountain Lion. > Somehow, the application becomes very slow there (Instruments says that the > application spends a whole bunch of time in some timer event somewhere deep > in the AppKit, even though I do not use any timers in my app). Apart from > the windows, on Lion/ML the sheets and the panels get this custom drawn > background with a titlebar. > > I am wondering if anyone created customized windows like this or reverse > engineered this NSThemeFrame? Maybe there are any articles on the internet > that I have missed (actually the link I gave in the beginning is the only > one I have found on this topic). Somehow Apple's iCalendar works pretty > fast on 10.7, while my app doesn't.. Calendar uses the public API of setBackgroundColor: on the window, and sets it to a pattern color. That is it. corbin > > If there's no way to fix this for 10.7/10.8, I guess I will have to draw my > windows from scratch using NSBorderlessWindowMask, but I think it is very > difficult to completely mimic the original window's behavior: borderless > windows do not support NSToolBar (i.e., I have to create my own one from > scratch), on different OS the windows look/behave differently (10.6 - large > titlebar buttons, resizing only using right-bottom corner, while 10.7 and > 10.8 - small titlebar buttons, resizing using any edge), etc.. > > > Thank you, > Nicolas > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/corbind%40apple.com > > This email sent to corb...@apple.com _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
