Metal vs Aqua Preference

[madmonk]

Hey All,
I’ve been working on a few Applescript studio apps and I’d like to add a preference where the user can choose between the Aqua or Brushed metal appearance (like poisoned has.) I’ve been searching the board and the rest of the internet for weeks and have yet to come up with a way of accomplishing this. Anybody have any experience in this sort of thing?

Thanks in Advance,
Jeff

[Ray_Barber]

Hi Jeff, this is from Apple…

–Click here to open this script in a new Script Editor window.

–Change Appearance to Graphite. From Apple

tell application “System Preferences”
activate
end tell

tell application “System Events”
tell process “System Preferences”
click menu item “General” of menu “View” of menu bar 1
if my [color=green]wait4window/color is false then return false
tell window 1
tell pop up button 2
click
tell menu 1
if the name of every menu item contains “Graphite” then
click menu item “Graphite”
delay 1
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell

ignoring application responses
tell application “System Preferences” to quit
end ignoring

on [color=green]wait4window/color
tell application “System Events”
tell process “System Preferences”
repeat with i from 1 to 60
if the name of window 1 is this_title then return true
delay 1
end repeat
end tell
end tell
return false
end wait4window

[This script was automatically tagged for color coded syntax by Script to Markup Code]

[kel]

Greg, I think what madmonk wants to do is change the window texture within an AppleScript Studio app. The documents just say that you can set the Textured Window attribute in Interface Builder. It says that you can create instances of windows. So, I think what you need to do is make 2 windows perhaps duplicating the first one. Then set the textured window attribute for the second. You then swap the windows depending on the user preference. I think the indices for the window items would be the same. I don’t know what would happen to like text entered by the user in text fields. I need to play around with this a little more.

If I’m totally wrong on this then disregard.

gl,

[madmonk]

Thanks for the replies. I’m trying to accomplish what kel described where the user could turn off the metal texture for the app. I had kicked around the idea of 2 separate windows, but was really hoping there was an easier way.

[Chris_Moore]

that said:

call method “_setTexturedBackground:” of theWindow with parameter true

[jonn8]

I’ve had limited success with the “_setTexturedBackground:” parameter which is an undocumented “hidden” method. Sometimes it works fine but other times the controls of the window to which I’ve called this method become unresponsive and I don’t recommend this method.

Jon

[madmonk]

“_setTexturedBackground:” seems to be doing the job just fine. Thank you very, very much. If you’re at all curious, the apps I’m trying to add it to are “Control Freak” and “Speed Freak”. Both are on version tracker and here…

http://home.comcast.net/~jeff.ulicny/software/

Again, thanks a million.

[BS0D]

That call method just makes my toolbar disappear on launch for some reason.
I guess I shouldnt use it anymore…