OT - OSX eye candy for Windows?

[Chipp Walters]

Barry,

You mean like this?

http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/AltuitImages/RenderGadget_big.jpg

This is a Windows app which looks like OSX..and functions that way too.
I've quickly created an interface stack you can examine.

You can view it by typing into the message box:
go URL "http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/macMetalLook.rev"

or go to the bottom of page:
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Tutorials.htm

Apple Metal Look Interface Stack

ng tricks to get the Mac OSX 'Metal' look and feel.

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The texture is a background pattern. The backgourn pattern is an image 
named "apple.png" on card 2 of the stack.

A small transparent PNG img "applehilite" is stretched to cover the 
height and width of the window. Then the lockloc of it is set to true so 
it won't revert back to a smaller size.

The stack decorations are set to empty and there's a mouseMove handler 
on the titlebar...which is an image "appletitlebar.png" stretched 
horizontally.

Theres a transparent fill graphic with a black outline around the whole 
thing.

Other stuff should be self explanatory.

-Chipp Walters, Altuit, Inc.

Barry Levine wrote:

> One of my professors asked if there was a way he could make a Windows 
> app look like an OSX app. He was referring to the shape and size of the 
> app's title bar, the red/yellow/green widgets, and the shape and "glow" 
> of on-screen buttons. He'd even like "metal" if that can be done.