image reference

Discover OS X' Hidden Artistic Side

OSNews - Mac OS X  Tue, 09/02/2008 - 11:38

"One of the most frequently used Cocoa classes is NSImage which, as the name suggests, is all about displaying and manipulating image data.

The imageNamed: method of this class retrieves an image reference for you - provided that you know the name of the image you're after.

Many of the images that can be retrieved via the imageNamed: method have well documented names, but there's a lot of stuff in there that's not well-known.

It's those images - including some for Windows - that I'll be digging into here.