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Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his older weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming. Go visit the current blog here.
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If you are programming to target Leopard, a lot of common graphics can be found using -[NSImage imageNamed:]. Not every generic graphic can be found there; there are a lot of images in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/.
It's certainly worth exploring the contents of this folder and possibly making use of the images. But since these images are not documented as an API, you will need to be sensitive to whether or not these images are still part of upcoming — or legacy — versions of Mac OS.
Since Sandvox is targetting either Tiger or Leopard, we have to be careful not to make use of a graphic that is in one big cat and not the other.
For our convenience, and for yours, I created a "diff" showing the contents of the Tiger vs. Leopard contents of the graphic files in that folder, after the break.