Additional Button Styles for OS X

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Garrett

(Posted 2006) [#1]

There are many additional button styles on OS X than what is available as
standard in MaxGui. I've been able to get some of the additional button
styles to work. The following is the procedure I used to accomplish this:

maxgui.h

Start a new line after line 41 and paste the following:

#define BUTTON_ICON 6
#define BUTTON_CIRCLE 7
#define BUTTON_METAL 8
#define BUTTON_HELP 9
#define BUTTON_INSETSQUARE 10
#define BUTTON_INSETROUND 11
#define BUTTON_RECTROUND 12
#define BUTTON_RECESSED 13

gadget.bmx

Start a new line after line 73 and paste the following:

Const BUTTON_ICON=6
Const BUTTON_CIRCLE=7
Const BUTTON_METAL=8
Const BUTTON_HELP=9
Const BUTTON_INSETSQUARE=10
Const BUTTON_INSETROUND=11
Const BUTTON_RECTROUND=12
Const BUTTON_RECESSED=13

cocoa.macos.m

Start a new line after line 1621 and paste the following:

(If line 1621 is not "if (style==BUTTON_CANCEL) [button
setKeyEquivalent:@"\x1b"];")", then do a find for "case
GADGET_BUTTON:". Scroll down until you see the above
code and start a new line after that.)

if (style==BUTTON_ICON) [button setBezelStyle:NSShadowlessSquareBezelStyle];
if (style==BUTTON_CIRCLE) [button setBezelStyle:NSCircularBezelStyle];
if (style==BUTTON_METAL) [button setBezelStyle:NSTexturedSquareBezelStyle];
if (style==BUTTON_HELP) [button setBezelStyle:NSHelpButtonBezelStyle];
if (style==BUTTON_INSETSQUARE) [button setBezelStyle:NSSmallSquareBezelStyle];
if (style==BUTTON_INSETROUND) [button setBezelStyle:NSTexturedRoundedBezelStyle];
if (style==BUTTON_RECTROUND) [button setBezelStyle:NSRoundRectBezelStyle];
if (style==BUTTON_RECESSED) [button setBezelStyle:NSRecessedBezelStyle];

Save all the changes and rebuild all modules.

Now the following constants will be available to your CreateButton():

BUTTON_ICON
BUTTON_CIRCLE
BUTTON_METAL
BUTTON_HELP
BUTTON_INSETSQUARE
BUTTON_INSETROUND
BUTTON_RECTROUND
BUTTON_RECESSED

Some of the new styles are not resizable, such as BUTTON_CIRCLE and
BUTTON_HELP. They are fixed size circular buttons.

The BUTTON_INSETSQUARE is resizable in it's width only and not it's height.

All the other styles are completely resizable.

Credits: Thanks goes to skidracer for giving me help on this.

-Garrett

Brucey

(Posted 2006) [#2]

All very useful too!

Thanks :-)

DannyD

(Posted 2006) [#3]

Believe it or not there is a Mac OS X forum here but it's hard to find. I'm trying to get the forum administrator to move the Mac os X forum from the very bottom of the forum lists to the BlitzMax list. Considering the only Blitz product available for Mac os X is BlitzMax it makes sense. Currently Mac topics end up in the general forum and disappear very quickly. I urge all Mac users who would like to see the forum promoted and visible to all to contact the Blitz webmaster using this link http://www.blitzbasic.com/Contact/_index_.php