If you haven’t already heard, Shiira 2 has been released. Shiira is a web browser written in Cocoa and based on Webkit that aims to provide a better browsing alternative than Safari.
A sub-project of Shiira is a HUD-type window class. While they’re not completely accurate to the specifications used by Apple, these are probably the best HUD windows I’ve seen from a third party developer by a long shot.
The HUD Windows have the funny name of HMBLBlkAppKit. The Shiira team has really done a great job!
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Leave a commentCheck out the HUDs in CSSEdit 2.5 - they blow these away by a mile. Very slick. Unfortunately, they are closed, so Jan is the only person who can use them
mentioned by Tony Arnold on April 24, 2007 12:37 am | Permalink
This thing looks pretty!
expressed by mudi on April 24, 2007 7:00 am | Permalink
Ahh… What can compare with CSSEdit?
Still, as an open source-ish project, this is one of the best ones out there. The iLife controls framework is good too, but HMBBLBlkAppKit is dedicated to HUD so naturally it does a better job of getting all the controls etc. working.
published by Ankur on April 24, 2007 8:23 am | Permalink
I have seen this, and I think it’s great. It’s well documented too, seeing this comes from Japan. Some great work in there.
reasonded by Sebastiaan on April 27, 2007 8:59 am | Permalink
I can’t get any NSTextField working inside a subclassed NSPanel with this framework
too bad because otherwise perfect
revealed by Neckaros on May 22, 2007 7:43 pm | Permalink
Neckaros, NSTextField is showing when I add it into the test application. Perhaps the black-on-black was hard to see? You can set the text colour as white.
posted by Ankur on May 22, 2007 11:05 pm | Permalink
You have to overwrite canBecomeKeyWindow in NSPanel and return YES if you want a textfield in your window.
recorded by Pieter on June 8, 2007 4:13 am | Permalink
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