Re: Shiny little square buttons

FROM : Nik Youdale
DATE : Sun Jul 02 16:13:31 2006

Hmmm...

Ok.. well it looks like a custom view is the best option then. One 
question though, is it possible to "cover" a view with a translucent 
black rectangle to the give the "pressed" look of a button? If I 
could do this I would be pretty much set. I tried using NSRectFill() 
in the drawRect method, using a translucent color, but that didn't work.

- Nik

On 02/07/2006, at 11:40 PM, Jeremy Dronfield wrote:
>
> The inspector tabs in Pages are an NSMatrix of NSButtonCells using 
> (in most cases) only 2 images for each cell - "normal" and "selected".
>
> (Personally, if I were doing this, I'd dispense with the background 
> images and draw the gradients in code in a custom cell subclass. 
> The reason being re-usability - it's easier to vary the colours, 
> sizes and background shapes for different requirements.)
>
> Regards,
> Jeremy
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