Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Michael Hanna
How do I customize the background colour of a window, including the toolbar? I did this a long time ago and vaguely recall that you can do this by setting it as a textured window and changing the background colour, but the exact process is lost on me. I vaguely recall there was some sample code on

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Michael Hanna taomaili...@gmail.com wrote: How do I customize the background colour of a window, including the toolbar? I did this a long time ago and vaguely recall that you can do this by setting it as a textured window and changing the background colour, but the

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread John Joyce
On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Michael Hanna taomaili...@gmail.com wrote: How do I customize the background colour of a window, including the toolbar? I did this a long time ago and vaguely recall that you can do this by setting it as a textured

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:24 AM, John Joyce jjo...@apple.com wrote: If you REALLY think you need this, look at the Stickies sample code (may be named Core Data Stickies, don't recall precisely). You'll see how to roll your own window. Part of the benefit of going the textured-window route is

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Michael Hanna
OK thanks all. I decided against customizing the window after all. Michael On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:24 AM, John Joyce jjo...@apple.com wrote: If you REALLY think you need this, look at the Stickies sample code (may be

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Dave Fernandes
What? Deprecated? Where does it say this? Aren't iCal and AddressBook textured windows? Or am I confusing the term? On 2010-06-03, at 11:38 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Michael Hanna taomaili...@gmail.com wrote: How do I customize the background colour of a window,

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Dave Fernandes dave.fernan...@utoronto.ca wrote: What? Deprecated? Where does it say this? Aren't iCal and AddressBook textured windows? Or am I confusing the term? Check the Leopard release notes. Normal and unified styles were merged, textured windows were

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Dave Fernandes
The Leopard AppKit release notes certainly mention textured windows in a number of places, but nowhere does it say that they are deprecated. I thought a bottom bar was just a strip of visible window background. How do you make the window draggable from the bottom bar without making the window

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Dave Fernandes dave.fernan...@utoronto.ca wrote: The Leopard AppKit release notes certainly mention textured windows in a number of places, but nowhere does it say that they are deprecated. I thought a bottom bar was just a strip of visible window background.

Re: Change the background colour of a window and toolbar

2010-06-03 Thread Markus Spoettl
On Jun 4, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Dave Fernandes wrote: The Leopard AppKit release notes certainly mention textured windows in a number of places, but nowhere does it say that they are deprecated. I thought a bottom bar was just a strip of visible window background. How do you make the window