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I really like a look of left tree in Finder (Mac OS X >= 10.5). That with a blue background color and "DEVICES" and "PLACES" dropdowns. I'd like category view in my app to look the same. But since I'm new to Mac OS X app development, I can't figure out if it's just a OutlineView? If so is there a predefined color scheme like in finder?

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  • This is called a SourceList. See similar questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/241507/how-would-one-implement-a-sidebar-similar-to-mail-itunes-finder-etc-in-cocoa-ib, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1670727/trouble-creating-an-itunes-style-source-list-in-cocoa, and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4133281/iphoto-style-sidebar – Cody Gray - on strike Nov 10 '10 at 12:33

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It's a source list. See the source list section of the Human Interface Guidelines

To make one in IB, you add a vertical split view with a thin divider. Into the left pane you put an outline view and set the highlight style to "source list". That will automatically give you the correct background colour.

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