I want a beautiful custom window for my first cocoa application

I - a graphic designer who turned into a web designer - turned into a web developer who is currently trying to become a Mac developer. I almost finished programming my first application. This is a very, very simple application, but I'm happy because I am learning a lot.

The problem is that I don't like the way it looks.

As you can guess, the design for me is very large, and I think that such an application, which is very simple, should at least look very good. I would like to do something like this: http://transmissionapps.com/ custom window with custom colors, etc.

I think that I already went through half the Internet, looking for information, but I did not find anything that I could understand. Maybe you can point me in the right direction, like:

1) Customize the look of my main window 2) Customize the look of the table view. 3) The same with buttons.

If you know any sample code, this will be great, I become obsessed with looking at another user's code.

Thanks! (sorry for the long post and bad english)

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How about drawing a custom window on Mac OS X ? It looks like you get a custom window to run.

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Check out the Brandon Walkin BWToolkit.

http://brandonwalkin.com/bwtoolkit/

It has tons of nice user interface elements to use in IB. It also has source code, so you can change it for your needs.

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Check out the sample Apple app ; this might be what you are looking for.

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