Re: Love the language & API, would like to modify the UI

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 18 Mar 2006, at 08:32, Sheldon Gill wrote:

> Issac Trotts wrote:
> > I'm looking at the gui examples, wondering how to make them look and
> > act more like regular Win32 apps when they run on Win32.
> > How do I get the menu to be part of the application's main window?
>
> We need to create a view class which will hold the menu within the  
> applications main window.

We already have a class to be used for this ...  
GSWindowDecorationView ... which acts as a top level container for  
the window's content view.  This needs to be modified to draw the  
NSMenuView instance for the main menu inside itsself, and the  
NSMenuView needs to be modified to cope with the fact that it's being  
used inside a normal window rather than a menu window.  I don't think  
anyone is currently working on that though.

> > Is there a way to change the window background color to something
> > other than dark gray?
>
> Yes, you need to modify the System.clr file in your home directory.  
> Unfortunately, it's not as easy as editing a text file.
>
> For your application you can modify the System color list. Look at  
> NSColorList. You want to change the color for the key  
> @"windowBackgroundColor" from memory.

Or you just use the NSUserDefaults system to specify the color you  
want to be used for NSWindowBackgroundColor