Re: Finder/iTunes Sidebar View?

FROM : William Bates
DATE : Mon Jan 14 13:17:30 2008

Mitchell,
I just did an iTunes-like sidebar. Here are some notes I took:

(1)
The basic object is an NSOutlineView

The backround blue color is:
[NSColor colorWithDeviceRed:0.820 green:0.843 blue:0.886 alpha:1.0]
== NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace 0.819608 0.843137 0.886275 1

Row Height 13
Text: [NSFont systemFontOfSize:11]

There is a very subtle embossed text effect created by  a NSTextCell 
subclass that returns NSBackgroundStyleRaised for backgroundStyle and 
interiorBackgroundStyle

(2) For a Finder-like sidebar (only), use
"Source List" selection style in IB, or programmatically set to 
NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList
Note that  the gradient used for the selection effect requires some 
vertical room