NewStyle Preferences

2010-06-20 Thread Jeremy Matthews
In my project I have some preferences in a tabview style, but I'd like to move towards a more mac-like interface for this (Safari, Mail)...probably using NSToolbar. I've seen examples (usually pretty dated) that reference a few different styles: 1) Tabless NSTabView using a Toolbar with

Re: NewStyle Preferences

2010-06-20 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
On 20 Jun 2010, at 22:53, Jeremy Matthews wrote: 1) Tabless NSTabView using a Toolbar with actions (selectTabViewItem:Blah) 2) Some third-party frameworks and code (BWToolkit - buggy, SS_PrefsController, DBPrefsWindowController, etc) 3) Private APIs from Apple (NSPrefernces) 4)

Re: [Cocoa-students] NewStyle Preferences

2010-06-20 Thread Marc Respass
Jeremy, I would go with a toolbar that swaps views. I think tab views are a fine control but before NSViewController, they were used in a tab-less style in order to make it easy to swap views. I think that approach is outdated. I would use a simple toolbar which you can setup in IB and swap