Re: metallized interface (offtopic rant)

FROM : Nicholas Riley
DATE : Sat Nov 02 16:27:07 2002

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:44:07PM -0500, James Derry wrote:
> For what it's worth, I've removed all of the metal-look from a great number
> of the Cocoa-based apps that use it, such as Address Book. Interface Builder
> comes in pretty handy for that. I imagine the same would work for nib-based
> Carbon apps, but I honestly don't know how many of those there are. (if
> you're using nibs, you'd jump to Cocoa, right?)

Not necessarily.  If you've got an app with window layouts in
resources, or hand-constructed, you might keep your existing layouts
in resources and use nibs for new code.  The 10.2 Finder does
exactly this - most windows are still using PowerPlant resource types,
but new features such as the slow and annoying expanding Info window
are done with nibs.

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=Nicholas Riley <<email_removed>> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
        Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
  Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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