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Resolution Independent Buttons

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Sean Patrick O’Brien shares his approach and sample code for creating attractive resolution independent controls in Cocoa.

I, like most developers, love shiny new user interfaces. Rounded corners, gradients, drop shadows, custom drawing — all of these things make me smile.

Sean takes us through his steps for prototyping his controls in Photoshop to get the look [...]

User Interface Design

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Exciting things are happening at the Outer Level development labs (my desk) these days. With the recent releases of Apple’s two latest platforms, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and the iPhone SDK, I’ve been very busy learning the latest development tools and working with the newest APIs.
Things are happening very fast in the technology [...]