Re: Smart way to get "etched" borders in Leopard

FROM : Jesse Grosjean
DATE : Sun Nov 11 16:28:03 2007

Thanks that did it!

Jesse

On Nov 10, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Antonio Nunes wrote:

> On 10 Nov 2007, at 04:30, Jesse Grosjean wrote:
>

>> We are probably driving you nuts with our stupidity, but I'm also 
>> still having a hard time getting this to work. For a textured 
>> window I the call setContentBorderThickness:forEdge: does seem to 
>> make a difference in the background, but as you say no black line 
>> is drawn in that case. But when I try 
>> setContentBorderThickness:forEdge:NSMinYEdge on a normal non 
>> textured window I don't see any change in it's appearance at all.
>>
>> Thanks again for your help, I'm sure the answer is sitting right 
>> there, I just can't seem to get it.
>>
>> Can someone walk me through how to make this work the really slow 
>> way :)

>
>
> The way I understood and implemented it, you have place this call 
> at the right moment. What I did is to create an NSWindow subclass 
> and put the code in initWithContentRect:styleMask:backing:defer:
>
> E.g:
>
> @implementation MyNSWindowSubclass
>
> - (id)initWithContentRect:(NSRect)contentRect styleMask:(NSUInteger)
> windowStyle backing:(NSBackingStoreType)bufferingType defer:(BOOL)
> deferCreation
> {
>     self = [super initWithContentRect:contentRect 
> styleMask:windowStyle backing:bufferingType defer:deferCreation];
>     
>     if (self) {
>         [self setContentBorderThickness:20.0 forEdge:NSMinYEdge];
>     }
>     
>     return self;
> }
>
> @end
>
> The window is not textured.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -António
>
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