Re: Colorful buttons of different shapes

On Apr 13, 2010, at 14:00, Abhijeet Singh wrote:

> Hi,I am porting my Win32 application to Mac. I am new to Cocoa. In my Windows Win32 application I have a window in that there is a 3 X 8 matrix of 24 buttons. Buttons are labeled as 124. Each button has 3 states.Unused  Round shape green color (Default state)Selected  Square shape orange color (User selects a button)Used  Round Shape red color (User save the selection by clicking Save button)In Win32 application I use owner drawn buttons to draw button of different color and shape.I'd be glad if someone could suggest me which control should i use in Cocoa to achieve the same effect. Should I use NSMatrix of buttons? If yes than how can i set color and shape of buttons?Thanks & RegardsAbhijeetDear macosxdev ! Get Yourself a cool, short @in.com Email ID now!

You should indeed use an NSMatrix of NSButtonCells, with settings that of a check button. If you need to customize the way it's drawn you should subclass NSButtonCell and do your customized drawing in drawWithFrame:inRect:ofView:. However, I would not recommend that, UI should be as much as possible standard, so users immediately recognize them and know how to use them. 

Christiaan