RE: Image sources for the standard images such as NSImageNameQuickLookTemplate

FROM : jonathan@mugginsoft.com
DATE : Mon Feb 18 17:58:10 2008

Thanks for the reply Mike.

The change is small - removing the pupil from the centre of the 
NSImageNameQuickLookTemplate eye.
My iconographic thinking is:

A complete eye represents a complete browse group in a table cell.
A pupil-less eye represents a partial browse group in a table cell.
An empty cell represents an empty browse group.

Not HIG standard stuff but comprehensible I think.
iTunes uses the eye for its browser button, so there is a slight 
precedent.

I had thought that if the source images are not available (which is 
what I suspect) that in memory compositing might be the solution. 
Either that or another icon altogether. But the extra features of the 
templates (auto inversion in highlighted row etc) are attractive, 
though I'm sure the effect could be reproduced in other images with 
appropriate masks etc.

Jonathan

> What sort of change are you thinking of. Is it something that could 
> be composited yourself in code at run-time?
>
> Mike.
>
> On 18 Feb 2008, at 13:55, <email_removed> wrote:
>

>> Hello
>>
>> Are image files for the standard images such as 
>> NSImageNameQuickLookTemplate accessible?
>> I would like to have a slight variation on one of the templates 
>> available.
>>
>> I have read the HIG guide and now the caveats with regard to 
>> standard use etc and possible changes to the standard images. 
>> However, a slightly modified image would prove useful.
>>
>> Jonathan