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

FROM : Andrew Kimpton
DATE : Fri Nov 09 22:42:37 2007

On Nov 8, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Ken Ferry wrote:

> Hi Jesse,
>

>> You can see that right
>> below the scroll view there are two lines that form a etching of some
>> sort. From top to bottom, a dark (black?) line followed by a lighter
>> line.
>>
>>        http://hogbaysoftware.com/files/leapardscreen.png

>
> Yes, there is something new here.  Take a look at -[NSWindow
> contentBorderThicknessForEdge:] and friends.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Cocoa/AppKit.html#NSWindow
>


I'm trying to get that look in my main window too - and unfortunately 
nothing I've tried seems to work.

The window is a textured window it has a large view under the content 
view which in turn contains some smaller views, a sibling to this view 
is a button, a progress bar and a text field. I have approx 20-30 
pixels of space above and below the large view (which contains the 
other sibling views).

The large view has no 'etching' around it at all. Adding :

  [[self window] setAutorecalculatesContentBorderThickness:NO 
forEdge:NSMinYEdge | NSMaxYEdge];
  [[self window] setContentBorderThickness:10.0 forEdge:NSMinYEdge | 
NSMaxYEdge];        // Try 10.0 just to get an effect

To my windowcontrollers awakeFromNib doesn't make any difference either.

I don't see what else is needed from my reading of the Release notes.

Any other pointers ?

> -Ken
> Cocoa Frameworks


Andrew 8-)

P.S. You can see a screenshot of the incorrect look at http://awkward.org/downloads/window_no_etching.png