If you draw your own control, it might help you to get started to make a very rough drawing of the control, one with no moving parts but with the areas of the control clearly delineated so you know where to do your hit-testing. Then draw your indicator with a black circle or square. Then draw the indicator with an image from a PNG. At the very end have a designer do nice graphics. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer [email protected] http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Graham Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8 May 2015, at 6:11 am, Jerry Krinock <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> a mid 19th-century radio receiver > > Really Jerry? Radio receivers weren't a thing until the 1920s! > > >> Am I correct that the answer is "no"? Keep in mind that we're not just >> drawing here; this is a control; we need mouse clicks, etc. >> >> Indeed, I'm not much of a drawing and graphics guy. > > I suggest it's time to break out the subclass. I suspect it's not going to be > a hugely difficult task. One thing I've found is a good approach to custom > controls is to draw the graphical parts separately (in a drawing app) and > just use them as an included resource. That way you don't get bogged down in > low level drawing code, it's easy to modify or customise and you can > concentrate your coding effort on the functioning of the control rather than > its appearance. > > I wouldn't be surprised if there is a 3rd-party solution out there for this > already. > > --Graham > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > 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/mdcrawford%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
