Hi all, @Jon Thanks! I just tried UIToolBar, it's exactly what I wanted.
@Fritz Sorry, I came from Qt world, I'm getting myself familiarised with the UI Control terms .. I'll use the right terms next time I meant iOS but I thought these UI Controls are available in both OSX and iOS so I didn't mention it .. I'll be clear about that next time. P.S I also tried NSSegmentedControl as you suggested, but UIToolBar looks more like it On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> wrote: > On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:20 AM, Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've seen a lot of apps like Safari. 5 buttons in the bottom >> >> Is that a common widget? I couldn't find it on google > > > (Notes ~ “widget” doesn’t have the same meaning in iOS/OS X frameworks that > it does on other platforms. You mean “control.” Jonathan Hull just suggested > the UIToolbar family, which is an excellent suggestion. I wrote this assuming > you were asking about OS X. Because you hadn’t said otherwise. The > fundamentals about what’s available, what has to be custom made, and how to > ask questions are the same.) > > Perhaps you could put what you want to do less telegraphically? > > Five buttons on the bottom is not like [desktop] Safari, we can’t use “a lot > of apps” as a guide to examples, and if you’re talking about the design of > your own application, how many there are and where doesn’t matter. Buttons > exist. You can have five of them. You can put them anywhere, singly or > together. That is common. > > I am guessing that you mean something like NSSegmentedControl [if AppKit]. > Apple [often] has a special appearance for segmented controls in its own > applications, which are built with private code. > > Many developers want that look, but it’s not in AppKit [UIKit]. You have to > make your own, or find a third-party library that gives you what you want. > Maybe you can get better search results if you try the terms “segmented > control Mac”. [Or “… iOS”.] > > > — F > -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0x13714D33 - http://pgp.mit.edu/ Finger Print: 9F67 391B B770 8FF6 99DC D92D 87F6 2602 1371 4D33 _______________________________________________ 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
