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Where can I find colored indicators for use in Cocoa?

I need color indicators. Need to be able to do green, yellow and red. Anybody know how? I looked through the available icons/etc in Interface Builder but did not see anything like them.

Like this: green indicator http://allynbauer.com/permafrost/green_indicator.png

Solution

  • You can find the images used in iChat/Mail/etc inside the InstantMessage.framework. The directory is /System/Library/Frameworks/InstantMessage.framework/Resources

    You can get status-available.png, status-away.png, and status-idle.png

    Of course, rather than needlessly including extra image files in your app, you could also include the InstantMessage.framework in your app and use [IMService imageNameForStatus:] to get the names of the system images for each status. See the IMService Class Reference