How do I create a Preference Pane?

Question

How do I create a preference pane for my app on Mac. Also, how do I make a preferences section for my app in the iPhone?

Answer 1

Your iPhone app needs a Settings bundle if you want to have your preferences in the system preferences.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/AppPrefs/index.html

You can create your own preferences view in your app on either platform. This is done by creating a view controller or window controller like you would any other view controller/window controller and you can use NSUserDefaults to store/retrieve the information you obtain from your user.

Answer 2

To put settings inside your application you might want to consider mySettings, an open source (EPL) framework for doing much of the hard work. After making a small code contribution myself I decided against including the setting inside my app after all.

Answer 3

For the Mac, you may wish to consult Apple's Preference Panes guide.

Answer 4

For Mac OS X, i would recommend my RHPreferences framework.

Available on GitHub. BSD Licensed.

Its a simple and easy Preferences window controller with multiple tabs for your next Mac application.

It also provides:

• Auto resizing between different sized tab views (With animation)
• Custom NSToolbarItem support
• Persistence of the last used tab
• Support for placeholder NSToolbarItems (eg NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItemIdentifier & NSToolbarShowFontsItemIdentifier)