ButtonMaker is a simple project that came from a tweet posted by @schwa yesterday (18 February 2010).
It allows you to make nice looking glass-like buttons inside of the iPhone Simulator to use in your applications.
It's pretty simple but allows you to control several features dynamically:
- The button text to see the proper size (button can be saved with or without the text)
- Color of the button tint, using RGBA settings.
- Width of button (between 50 and 300)
- Height of button (between 30 and 80)
The resulting button is saved to the Documents folder in the iPhone simulator, usually found at ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Applications/[uuid]/Documents/button.png.
Caveats:
- Sometimes the button drawing has a thin gap on the right side, try adjusting the width a little bit.
- Entering RGB values on the keyboard is a bit of a pain.
- Most importantly, as Jonathan Wight said:
It uses a private API and will almost assuredly get rejected by Apple.
Enjoy.