Where is the brushed steel image in macOS?

Lt Major Burns

Lt Major Burns

"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
where can i find a decent example of the brushed steel image? there must be the image somewhere in the library, that itunes, safari, iphoto etc uses, and also for new apps that want the brushed steel look? where is this lovely well-scalable image?
 
If you want the brushed metal look, it's easier to do so in Interface Builder by selecting the "Has Texture" option on the main window's attributes.
 
i really just want the image... but icould make a very big interface with no buttons and take a screengrab i suppose....
 
It's not an image. The texture is constant, but the shading is dynamic. Try resizing a window horizontally (not vertically), and you'll see that the texture of existing parts of the window doesn't change; only the shading does. The texture is never scaled at all.

So the appearance of every brushed-metal window is dynamic — which is why they're so god-forsakenly slow on older hardware (uuuurg!).

The texture itself is probably a small repeating pattern. Dunno where it's stored, but I don't think it would be of any use to you, anyway. Interface builder is the way to go. Just remember that scaling the image you capture will not give you an accurate representation of a real metal window.
 
And sometime's Apple uses it in places where it shouldn't (iChat, for example) as it doesn't conform to the HIG
 
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