Re: changing color of window title bars, menus?

FROM : ssudre2
DATE : Sun Dec 15 11:54:07 2002

On dimanche, dicembre 15, 2002, at 08:16  AM, Brock Brandenberg wrote:

> Hi Dave.
>
>> I know I'm risking torture and rekducation by the Aqua Police, but is
>> there any non-hackish way to change the colors of window title bars,
>> menus and popup buttons?
>>
>> I'm porting a telescope controller of mine over to Cocoa, it's been
>> going quite well, but when using a computer under such conditions, we
>> like to keep things on the screen as close to black as we can, so as
>> not to ruin one's night vision. I can get most of my window good and
>> dark, but would like to avoid bright Aqua intrusions during use- this
>> would be for my app only, not system wide.
>>
>> I have searched the archives and didn't find much...any help or
>> pointers would be much appreciated.
>
> You should consider not doing this in your UI. You should leave the UI
> as is
> and instruct your users to turn on "Switch to Black on White" in the
> Universal Access preferences pane.

I think there's an application made by Apple which is not using the
usual Window title bars: iSync.

It's the window that warms you that there's a lot of file not
synchronized.

It's possible to create a custom shape window. And there's a sample
code on how to do this on the ADC public Web site.
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | <email_removed>
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.