Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item

2012-01-28 Thread Mark Alldritt
On 2012-01-27, at 12:00 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > There's probably a private API for that. The bad news is that Apple apps use > a lot of private APIs :( The good news is that these APIs often become public > in later OS releases, especially if developers file bugs clamoring for them > (hint hin

Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item

2012-01-27 Thread Preston Sumner
On Jan 26, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Mark Alldritt wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm looking for a way to make a view-based Toolbar Item that occupies the > full height of the toolbar (i.e. including the space normally reserved for > the toolbar item's label). Xcode 4 does this for its "status" display, a

Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item

2012-01-27 Thread David Catmull
On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > The good news is that these APIs often become public in later OS releases, > especially if developers file bugs clamoring for them (hint hint). Done: bug 10766939. -- David Catmull uncom...@uncommonplace.com __

Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item

2012-01-27 Thread Jens Alfke
stoolbar > ..but it doesn't anymore. Also note that Instruments has a full-height > toolbar item, and that toolbar is fully customizable, so whatever tricks > they're using they were able to make it behave like a normal toolbar item - > cmd-draggable, in customize sheet, etc.

Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item

2012-01-27 Thread John Pannell
Hi Mark- I have an app that has such an appearance… http://www.positivespinmedia.com/BombSquad/screenshots.html There's a couple ways to go about it… in a different project, I used NSToolbar, but disabled customization for it and set it to display "Icon-only" (no labels). [toolbar setAllowsUse

Re: Full-Height Toolbar Item

2012-01-27 Thread David Catmull
o this article, Xcode used to use a floating window trick: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6169255/is-it-possible-to-draw-in-the-label-area-of-nstoolbar ..but it doesn't anymore. Also note that Instruments has a full-height toolbar item, and that toolbar is fully customizable, so whateve

Full-Height Toolbar Item

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Alldritt
Hi Everyone, I'm looking for a way to make a view-based Toolbar Item that occupies the full height of the toolbar (i.e. including the space normally reserved for the toolbar item's label). Xcode 4 does this for its "status" display, and I have a similar need in my application. The NSToolbar a

Full-height toolbar item

2011-10-17 Thread David Catmull
How can I make a toolbar item that takes up the full height of the toolbar, including the space where the label would normally be? Simply setting the label to an empty string doesn't seem to do it. I want to make something like Xcode 4's status display. -- David Catmull uncom...@uncommonplace.