如何在我的 Mac Cocoa 应用程序中创建 iOS 风格的工具栏？

Question

Several iLife '11 applications on the Mac use iOS-style black toolbars. For instance, the toolbar at the bottom of this screenshot of iPhoto:

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This sort of look is available in the iOS SDK as "UITabBar."

I am wondering if there is an easy way to achieve this in my ordinary, non-iOS Mac application. If not, what would be the best way to go about creating this effect?

Answer 1

There's nothing that will give you this view out of the box. You'll need to build it yourself.

The simplest method would be to create a custom view with a gradient background and place monochrome buttons in it.

Better would be to create a set of classes similar to NSToolBar that handle positioning, highlighting etc. Even better, build it and then open-source it:-)

However, you'll have to build it yourself. Apart from NSButton there's not much that will help in the pre-existing objects.