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I've crafted a rather nice about box for my app and there is ony tiny thing I need help with.
As it stands now, my about panel has a close gadget. I would prefer not to have a close gadget but rather, if the user clicks anywhere in the box, it is dismissed. This would be better than what I have now, but the best case scenario for me would be for my about window to not even have a title bar. I guess what I'm trying to do is make my about box like the iTunes about box. As a side note, how did apple do that way cool fade at the top and bottom of the scrolling text? I've got my text scrolling like that, but no sexy fade.
Make a window with NSBorderlessWindowMask, and in your custom view that draws the funky stuff, implement -mouseDown: to call -performClose: on the window.
Actually, I kind of like how just about every Mac OS X app has the same style About panel...
As a side note, how did apple do that way cool fade at the top and bottom of the scrolling text? I've got my text scrolling like that, but no sexy fade.
if you are a C++/Carbon guy, you might like to check out www.maczoop.com. It's a small framework that offers (among other things) a scrolling text box with a soft fade-in/fade-out. And dialog boxes without title-bars or close-widgets.
Oh yes, this is all done with the oh-so obsolete Quickdraw and Resource Manager...
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