Re: Custom About Box with background shape

2011-11-09 Thread Chris Paveglio
>Where did you learn this voodoo? I had tried it while at BNR (2009) and it worked, so I did not look into other methods at that point, nor did I ask about it. Yes I am using NSWindowController, but clearly not 100% correctly. >I suspect you want to do [aboutWindow setOpaque:NO] instead of this

Re: Custom About Box with background shape

2011-11-08 Thread Ken Thomases
On Nov 7, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Chris Paveglio wrote: > I have a custom about box, and it's sort of like Adobe apps, where it's not a > traditional window but a graphic/image I made that is a shape like a hexagon > with a drop shadow. > It works fine and I can call it and I disable the window backgr

Re: Custom About Box with background shape

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Paveglio
Yes I did have that set... but when I unchecked it and rebuilt and ran it again, then the window has a black rectangle around it with no transparency. I tried moving most of those code lines to awakeFromNib, but none were successful. >Sounds like your window is initially visible before it's had

Re: Custom About Box with background shape

2011-11-07 Thread Lee Ann Rucker
Sounds like your window is initially visible before it's had its alpha set; try turning off "visible at launch" in the nib. On Nov 7, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Chris Paveglio wrote: > I have a custom about box, and it's sort of like Adobe apps, where it's not a > traditional window but a graphic/image

Custom About Box with background shape

2011-11-07 Thread Chris Paveglio
I have a custom about box, and it's sort of like Adobe apps, where it's not a traditional window but a graphic/image I made that is a shape like a hexagon with a drop shadow. It works fine and I can call it and I disable the window background by setting the window alpha to 0.999. One little tiny