I would like to create a custom check box that functions just like a normal check box but looks different, at the moment I am using normal check box's, is there a way to do this.
P.S This is Cocoa i am talking about.
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A:
You need to override NSButtonCell. You'll use drawInteriorWithFrame:inView: or a simililar method to do your custom drawing. If you've never used custom cells before it can be a bit of a learning experience, but there's a lot of good advice out there, like this page to start with.
You could also take a look at an open source framework like BGHUDAppKit for an example.
Marc Charbonneau
2009-05-03 14:03:07
How do you implement the BGHUDAppKit?
Joshua
2009-05-03 16:26:58
It's just a standard framework, you can find instructions in the wiki: http://code.google.com/p/bghudappkit/wiki/UsingFramework
Marc Charbonneau
2009-05-03 16:55:42
How do you download BGHUDAppKit?
Joshua
2009-05-03 17:04:44
Open the Terminal and type this "svn checkout http://bghudappkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ bghudappkit-read-only"That will download the BGHUDAppKit XCode project and place it in your home directory. You can move it from there to wherever and open in XCode.
willc2
2009-05-03 22:59:17
It says that bghudappkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk is not a valid url.
Joshua
2009-05-04 07:05:32
Fixed that, needed to add http://, but where is the IB plugin?
Joshua
2009-05-04 07:10:12