Re: Changing NSPrintPanel UI in 10.5

FROM : David Duncan
DATE : Tue May 13 20:32:48 2008

On May 13, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Rimas wrote:

> I am interested in adding additional button to the NSPrintPanel dialog
> at the very bottom line. Between ( PDF v ) and ( Cancel ). Is that
> possible under Leopard?


There no simple way to do this, and I would highly discourage trying 
to do so.

> Custom accessory view is not suitable for me.
> Even topics from "Extending Printing Dialogs" does not help, because
> they does not cover information about how to modify PrintPanel UI
> outside changeable panes.


What are you trying to accomplish?

> I could do this by getting NSPrintPanel window, accessing its content
> view and so on... but I wanted to be sure that this is the only way to
> do that. Is there any "right way" to achieve this?



There is no "right way" to do this. The content outside of any 
accessory views that you add to the print panel does not belong to you 
and should be considered an implementation detail.
--
David Duncan
Apple DTS Animation and Printing
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