Cocoa Photoshop Toolbar Buttons
Posted December 16th, 2004 @ 01:02am by Erik J. Barzeski
I've concluded my search, and I've found nothing. I went looking for a class that could behave similarly to Photoshop's toolbar buttons. The critical characteristics include:
- Looks like a square button.
- Able to have a submenu and, also, to not.
- Able to display that menu after a given time period, not when clicking only on a very small arrow.
- Able to respond to keystrokes like "w" or "i".
- Able to be used within an NSMatrix.
- Able to act as a radio button, "unchoosing" any other tools. This could be done in the controller, too.
If anyone knows of some code somewhere that does this - or even a Cocoa application with something like Photoshop's toolbar buttons - please let me know.
Donate Life
Posted 16 Dec 2004 at 1:18am #
The one that immediately comes to mind is the tool palette thingy in OmniGraffle. It seems to fit all of your criteria outlined above (errr... except perhaps No. 5 as I have absolutely no idea what an NSMatrix is, apart from it probably has nothing to do with Keanu Reeves).
Neil.
Posted 16 Dec 2004 at 1:34am #
Yes, also similar to the tools in OmniGraffle. But that doesn't mean OmniAppKit (and the 13 million frameworks it relies on) is the answer: that's too much bulk for a few little buttons.