[pastusza]

Is there a way to modify the NIB files of an existing coca app to get rid of the Brushed Metal look and return it to the Aqua look? I'd like to try and modify iPhoto and perhaps the Address Book in the Jaguar.

[sandsl]

A while ago someone succesfully modified iPhoto to get rid of its brushed metal look. Try searching for brushed metal or archivedocument.nib on the macnn forums.

In Jaguar it should be as easy as opening the nib of the brushed metal window in Interface Builder and unchecking 'Brushed Metal' in the inspector.

[pastusza]

I have been searching the forums this exact topic and I can't find a single thing about it!

If anyone has this fix, please send it my way!

[Jeff Binder]

There's a Sosumi theme for iTunes... It's not the Aqua look, but it does change the look. You may want to take a look at what it does. It probably won't work in Jag[wire|uar], though.

http://sinewave.wirefire.com/sosumi/

[pastusza]

Is to turn iPhoto into Aqua. Someone said that there is a forums posting on how to do that. But I can't find anything when I do a search...

[Synotic]

iTunes, iPhoto and then the new apps. Here's a small overview...

iTunes is a carbon app and uses no nibs, it calls upon images in the PICT resource to draw the window. The lighting and some other things are all done programmatically. This is why it's impossible to change certain things.

iPhoto is a Cocoa app and uses it's own sub-classes to draw things brushed metal style. You essentially just change the class of the objects to their original ones to fix it.

The new apps use no hacking or sub-classing. You simply check "Textured window" (not "Brushed metal" ) and then the window is textured, or uses brushed metal. Like Aqua, it also calls its resources from the Extras.rsrc file which contains the user interface for Mac OS X. You can modify it to modify brushed metal, including the lighting which is in there.

Hope this clears a few things up.

[sandsl]

You simply check "Textured window" (not "Brushed metal" )

Sorry I don't have access to illegal/legal beta copies of the Jaguar developer tools to confirm the names of checkboxes. But thanks for the info anyway - i'll try and make sure I don't misdirect people to to the wrong checkbox next time...sorry everyone!

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I think "Textured window" checkbox should be replaced with "Brushed metal" under the window properties...that would make sence!

[pastusza]

Ok, so help me out here. How would I change the subclass to get the Aqua look in OS X?

From what I understand, someone has already done this, BUT I can't find the thread anywhere on the forums when I do a search.

It looks like with iPhoto, the only thing that really needs to be changed is the ArchiveDocument.nib, as everything else is Aqua, but I loaded the file up in Interface Builder and don't even know where to begin from there.

Originally posted by Synotic:
iTunes, iPhoto and then the new apps. Here's a small overview...

iTunes is a carbon app and uses no nibs, it calls upon images in the PICT resource to draw the window. The lighting and some other things are all done programmatically. This is why it's impossible to change certain things.

iPhoto is a Cocoa app and uses it's own sub-classes to draw things brushed metal style. You essentially just change the class of the objects to their original ones to fix it.

The new apps use no hacking or sub-classing. You simply check "Textured window" (not "Brushed metal" ) and then the window is textured, or uses brushed metal. Like Aqua, it also calls its resources from the Extras.rsrc file which contains the user interface for Mac OS X. You can modify it to modify brushed metal, including the lighting which is in there.

Hope this clears a few things up.

[Ibson]

Originally posted by pastusza:
Ok, so help me out here. How would I change the subclass to get the Aqua look in OS X?

From what I understand, someone has already done this, BUT I can't find the thread anywhere on the forums when I do a search.

It looks like with iPhoto, the only thing that really needs to be changed is the ArchiveDocument.nib, as everything else is Aqua, but I loaded the file up in Interface Builder and don't even know where to begin from there.

Et....hop!: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=112837

[Ibson]

And the reason that brushed metal is referred to as "Textured Windows" is..well....that's just what Apple wants. If you read the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (June 2002 edition), brushed metal windows are described under the heading of "Textured Windows", even with a screenshot of iTunes 1.0. When creating a window programatically (using -[NSWindow initWithContentRect:styleMask:backing:defer:]), developers create a brushed-metal window by applying NSTexturedBackgroundWindowMask to a titled window. So, all-in-all, it looks like the term "textured window" is going to stay.

[Synotic]

Originally posted by pastusza:
Ok, so help me out here. How would I change the subclass to get the Aqua look in OS X?

From what I understand, someone has already done this, BUT I can't find the thread anywhere on the forums when I do a search.

It looks like with iPhoto, the only thing that really needs to be changed is the ArchiveDocument.nib, as everything else is Aqua, but I loaded the file up in Interface Builder and don't even know where to begin from there.

Presumably, the code they use to draw the brushed metal is left.. well.. in the code.. Which we (not surprisingly) don't have access to. We can see and know that they have code for it, we just can't use it... Not until 10.2 anyways.

[Rickster]

I think "Textured window" checkbox should be replaced with "Brushed metal" under the window properties...that would make sense!

Apple has a history of keeping developer terminology and APIs separated from the visual appearance of stuff -- that way it's more likely that existing apps will remain happy when Apple changes the look of things.