This NSTableView subclass tries to mimic the appearance of the Finder sidebar using gradients to highlight selections. I suggest replacing the png's gradients with some vector art looking towards Leopard.

You probably also want to download BSLabeledIconCell to have a cell which displays both an icon and a label on a single column, but is not a strict dependency.

BSSidebar source preview

#import "BRSidebar.h"

@implementation BSSidebar

- (void)highlightSelectionInClipRect:(NSRect)clipRect
{
  NSImage *backgroundImage;
  
  if([[self window] isKeyWindow] && [[self window] isMainWindow])
  {
    backgroundImage = [NSImage imageNamed:@"selectionGradient"];
  }
  else
  {
    backgroundImage = [NSImage imageNamed:@"selectionGradient_grey"];  
  }
  
  if(backgroundImage)
  {
    [backgroundImage setScalesWhenResized:YES];
    [backgroundImage setFlipped:YES];
    
    NSRect drawingRect;
    drawingRect = [self rectOfRow:[self selectedRow]];
    
    NSSize bgImageSize;
    bgImageSize = drawingRect.size;
    [backgroundImage setSize:bgImageSize];
    
    NSRect imageRect;
    imageRect.origin = NSZeroPoint;
    imageRect.size = [backgroundImage size];
    
    [backgroundImage drawInRect:drawingRect fromRect:imageRect operation:NSCompositeSourceOver fraction:1.0];
  }
}

- (id)_highlightColorForCell:(NSCell *)cell
{
  return nil;
}

@end

BSSidebar header preview

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

@interface BSSidebar : NSTableView 
{

}

@end

Dependencies:

• BSLabeledIconCell

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Compatible with:

• Mac OS X 10.3
• Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
• Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
• Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
• Mac OS X 10.5 Intel

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