Hi all, i'm new to Cocoa and Interface Builder (both on Leopard), so you'll have to excuse me.
I'm part way through designing the interface for an application that looks similar to mail.app - by that, I mean an NSOutlineView up the left hand side of the window, and the main content area to right. I've also got a toolbar running across the top of the window.
I want to add a mini-toolbar along the bottom of the window. I have seen these referred to as "bottom button bars" or "status bars" across the web. I would appreciate some pointers how to start doing this. e.g. this bar http://forums.finaljustice.co.uk/Picture 1.png) from Mail.
I've tried the obvious things - IB doesn't let me add > 1 toolbar to a window. I can't drag a window into another window, either (to try to get the background colour/texture of the panel). So... I created a Custom View along the bottom of the screen, and have written some code so it colours this view's area in a lovely green colour.
I've dragged some buttons on top of my Custom View, which render on top - so essentially, this way would work if someone could tell me how I get the View to render the appropriate coloured background**. Unless this is the wrong approach? in which case pointers as to the "correct" method would be appreciated.
**By this I mean; what's the best/official/flavour of the week/most standard colour scheme now in Leopard? e.g. As far as I can see, it's between the Finder vs Mail - Finder has a much darker bar along the bottom of the window, whereas Mail has a much lighter one.
I am leaning towards the lighter version; either way, I would need to draw this texture/colour into my Custom View. How can I do this?
Many thanks for reading and for your help
I'm part way through designing the interface for an application that looks similar to mail.app - by that, I mean an NSOutlineView up the left hand side of the window, and the main content area to right. I've also got a toolbar running across the top of the window.
I want to add a mini-toolbar along the bottom of the window. I have seen these referred to as "bottom button bars" or "status bars" across the web. I would appreciate some pointers how to start doing this. e.g. this bar http://forums.finaljustice.co.uk/Picture 1.png) from Mail.
I've tried the obvious things - IB doesn't let me add > 1 toolbar to a window. I can't drag a window into another window, either (to try to get the background colour/texture of the panel). So... I created a Custom View along the bottom of the screen, and have written some code so it colours this view's area in a lovely green colour.
I've dragged some buttons on top of my Custom View, which render on top - so essentially, this way would work if someone could tell me how I get the View to render the appropriate coloured background**. Unless this is the wrong approach? in which case pointers as to the "correct" method would be appreciated.
**By this I mean; what's the best/official/flavour of the week/most standard colour scheme now in Leopard? e.g. As far as I can see, it's between the Finder vs Mail - Finder has a much darker bar along the bottom of the window, whereas Mail has a much lighter one.
I am leaning towards the lighter version; either way, I would need to draw this texture/colour into my Custom View. How can I do this?
Many thanks for reading and for your help
