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

FROM : Chris Hanson
DATE : Mon Nov 05 01:00:36 2007

On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:33 AM, <email_removed> wrote:

> Can someone tell me what the smart way to get etched (not sure if 
> that's
> the right term) borders for a Leopard only app. My app will used a
> Textured Window, and I want to have borders that look like the 
> borders in
> iChat at the top and bottom of the scroll view.


Like in the bottom bar of Address Book, too?

This is documented in the Application Kit Release Notes (10.5) under 
"Text and image effects: -[NSCell backgroundStyle]":

> For example, if you place an borderless NSTextField directly on the 
> window surface you will likely want to have a controller call 
> setBackgroundStyle:NSBackgroundStyleRaised on the text cell to get 
> engraved text.


Hope this helps!

  -- Chris