[3R1C]

1. Can NSToolbar items have tooltips?

2. The toolbar items 'space' and 'flexible space' both are invisible items that do not show in the toolbar. However they do have a visible icon in the custimization pallete. I need to do this with one of my toolbar items. I am using OAChassingArrows in my app as a toolbar item. These arrows are not visible unless they are moving. When I go to the customization pallete the arrows are of course not visible. I would like to assign them an icon which is visible in the customization pallete. How do the 'space' and 'flexible space' items accomplish this?

[ksuther]

I don't know about number two, but for number one you just do. [toolbarItem setToolTip:@"Ain't this fun?"];

[Synotic]

I'd like to note that you should really look at the SimpleToolbar example. All of these things are addressed. Basically, for No. 1, there is a paletteImage and a toolbarImage. You just set these. And No. 2 was already addressed.

[3R1C]

Thanx ksuther, worked like a charm

Synotic: you must have a 'special' SimpleToolbar example, as mine makes no mention of separate images for palette and toolbar. In fact the word "paletteImage" is not in the example.

The only place that setting the image is discussed in the example is this line:

[toolbarItem setImage: [NSImage imageNamed: @"SaveDocumentItemImage"]];

but on the off chance that perhaps my example was not 'special' I tried:

[toolbarItem setPaletteImage: [NSImage imageNamed: @"foo"]];

of course I got -[NSToolbarItem setPaletteImage:]: selector not recognized
and then my app crashed promptly.

the documentation makes no mention of this 'paletteImage' you glibly refer to.

So... anyone else know how apple does this?

[Rickster]

Nope, but I know how Omni does.

In the delegate method where you provide toolbar items:
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- (NSToolbarItem *)toolbar NSToolbar *)toolbar itemForItemIdentifier NSString *)itemIdentifier willBeInsertedIntoToolbar BOOL)flag;
</font>[/code]
you can give back a completely different toolbar item if <font face = "courier">flag</font> is <font face = "courier">NO</font>. You could give back a normal toolbar item with the OAChasingArrows icon, or you could give back a toolbar item with a static image view as its custom view (we use OAToolbarImageView for this purpose).