Posts in Cocoa

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Free Mac OS X Icons for Developers

I'm building a little one-off Mac OS X application for uploading photos to my website, and needed to add a few icons to it. Here are a few very high-quality resources I've found. There are actually some really nice, free icons out there for Mac de...

Dec 03, 2006
Cocoa

The best Cocoa UI components

Update: I just launched a new website that tracks the best custom Cocoa controls for iOS and OS X. It doesn’t have a ton on it yet, but I’m stocking it up with my favorite items. Also, feel free to submit your own! As a Cocoa developer on Mac OS ...

Nov 28, 2006
Cocoa

Styling NSWindows in Cocoa

Bithaus has a handy little chunk of Objective C source code up that provides programmatic capabilities to styling NSWindows. It’s modeled on Matt Gemmell’s snazzy TunesWindow class (which I use in iRooster, by the by), but appears to handle all of...

Oct 08, 2006
Cocoa

Make Your Cocoa App a Little More Consistent

One of my biggest beefs with Apple is the amount of time and energy they expend on the ‘you must follow the Apple Ux Guidelines’ mantra, followed by releasing applications that look nothing look their own guidelines. What this ends up meaning to y...

Jul 31, 2006
Cocoa

Subclassing NSCell - The Easy Way

Mike Ash, a developer at Rogue Amoeba, published an article a while back about subclassing the Cocoa class NSCell in a way that doesn’t make you want to stab your eyeballs with a pen. Having suffered through a lot of this with iRooster, I recogniz...