Re: GNUstep themeing and MacOS HITheme APIs...

[Michael Hanni]

Hi,

Just one point...

--- "M. Uli Kusterer" <witness@t-online.de> wrote:

>  If you want to allow that people create custom controls that match any 
> theme, you may still want to make sure you have a complete set of high- 
> and low-level theme-drawing APIs. Both a call to draw a full NSTabView 
> as well as a call to draw just a tab or just the body area of a tab 
> view, etc. Having a look at Apple's stuff (both in HITheme.h and 
> Appearance.h) is a good way to make sure nothing is overlooked.

The latest NSTabView code
(http://www.cc.utah.edu/~msh3/gnustep/NSTabView-NG-0.02.tgz) has methods to
draw the whole tab and for each side of the tab. In theory you could override
easily any of these methods to completely change the look of the tab.

Cheers,

Michael

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