creating Preference Panel

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jc658

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Hi,

Does anyone know of documentation for creating new Preference Panels for MacOS X? I think that some 3rd party developers (like TinkerTool) have fingured it out.

Thanks,

Jesse
 
Depends on what you mean by preference pannels, If you mean the actuall Pannel you put up for the user, that is just done in IB, or you can use the OmniAppkit to get a Prefs pannel like OmniWeb has.

If you are talking about handleing the actuall preferences and setting and reading values, you wnat to look at the docs for NSUserDefaults (cocoa) or the CF PreferenceServices.

Tinker tool works mostly by setting and reading values int the NSUserDefaults database using the command line tool 'defaults' but if you are writing an app and want to do prefs for your own application then you should use the specified API's.
 
Thanks, I actually noticed after I sent the message that the 10.1 Developer Tools has a great tutorial about how to use the PreferencePane framework to create a System Preference module.
 
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