I've been wondering how apple did the iTunes style tab view. Opening the iTunes nib files shows normal NSTabView styled tabs. Is there any code documented for this?
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macOS iTunes style NSTabView
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Subclassing NSTableView is the answer
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The behavior of the tabs is different than a normal tab view in that the selected tab covers up the previous tab, which NSTabView does not do. So, I'd suggest implementing a custom view that contains custom NSButtons for the tabs (you'd want to subclass NSButton and NSButtonCell), and then below those buttons you'd want a standard tabless NSTabView. The buttons would then switch your internal tab view.