Can anyone help with an example on how to configure the menu for a catalyst app in Objective-C. The main intend is to get rid of most of the menu items.
Select your Main.storyboard for your project. Near the upper right hand corner, there is a + button to add objects from library, click that button and search for Main Menu then add it to your Main.storyboard. From there you should be able to select items and delete the unwanted ones. I believe you won't be able to remove the Application menu.
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I am looking for a way to add several toolbar buttons to Finder, which, when clicked, perform certain actions.
My research shows that injecting code into Finder process is impossible on latest versions of macOS due to SIP, yet this would be the most seamless way for the user.
There is a possibility to add a toolbar item by creating a Finder Sync extension. However there are 2 problems:
There can be only one toolbar button per extension (I need several buttons)
The toolbar button will have a dropdown arrow (see an image below). I do not need to show a menu, however, and therefore this arrow makes the button misleading. It must be a simple plain button that matches the current system theme and performs an action upon click.
So this is what I don't need (because of the drop down arrow):
Update:
One of the ways to add a button, is drag and drop an .app bundle, holding Command key.
This approach has the following problems:
This button wouldn't match the other toolbar buttons look&feel, as the icon for such button is taken from the .app bundle (so it wouldn't switch based on macOS light/dark theme, for example)
It is impossible to add several toolbar buttons like that (as there needs to be one .app per 1 button). However, I need multiple buttons.
I am wondering if FinderSync allows creating "normal" (non menu) buttons
Is there a way to add a regular button to Finder's toolbar?
Please check out my Finder buttons:
https://github.com/lexrus/LTFinderButtons
Basically, I made every task a button app.
I'm trying Finder Sync Extension to do the same thing. All issues you found are true. Furthermore, there's problem #3:
You can not submit an app with Finder Sync Extension to the App Store.
This is my first UWP app
I have a SplitView. On the right side I want a menu. On the left side I want to be able to load different pages into it(frame)
The only menu I can find have that hamburger in it(AppBarButton).
This app will only run on windows desktop machines so I do not have need of the hamburger and it will be rather useless.
I have spent the last two nights looking for options but all I get are hamburgers.
Can someone please point me to an example of a no hamburger menu or a tutorial of some kind?
I am sure I can figure it out once I know what elements to use, I just need a push in the correct direction.
What you need is a base page (let's call it "HostView") this will simply have a SplitView control with the DisplayMode set to Inline and the IsPaneOpen set to true. You can also set the side panel width by using the OpenPaneLength property.
Your menu buttons go into the SplitView.Pane and you place a Frame control in the SplitView.Content. This frame will navigate to the correct page when a menu item is selected.
If you set the properties as I said above then you will not need a Hamburger menu to open the side panel at all. However, please consider the fact that users will want to resize your app, and they might resize to a very narrow size which means it might not have enough space to display all the content. IN which case you will need to collapse the side panel and show a hamburger menu to open it when needed. You don't have to do this, but it is something to consider.
I am developing a mac app that must provide support for FinderSync application extension. Everything works fine, except some sidebar and toolbar icon issues.
Is there a way to programatically add the toolbar and sidebar icons without user intervention?
As from documentation, I didn't find anything to help me do that. They refer to these icons, by mentioning that the user must manually drag the folder manually to sidebar, or manually customize the toolbar, but not API to achieving this at runtime.
However there are apps that add themselves back if someone removes them from the toolbar.
Is there other way to display an icon for my folder, except iconset? I noticed that there are other apps out there which do have an icon in the sidebar, but they do not seem to have an icon set in bundle resources and the CFBundleIconFile is set to an icns resource.
Is there a way to disable a menu item in menuForMenuKind: ? In a normal NSMenu situation, the menu item should have no action or target, but this is not the case. Even if I do so, menu item is still enabled.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Welcome to the world of pain.
I've been developing Finder Sync extension as well, so here are answers to your questions:
Now I'm searching for the way to add programmatically Toolbar button, I saw some phrases that this can be done.
To add item to sidebar, you should use some LSSharedFileList code:
Add Item to Finder Sidebar
Via the same API you can check if your item is present in the sidebar, and do not add the duplicate.
Now (since Mac OS X 10.11) sidebar icon can be changed only via iconset. Previously it was possible to change it via Finder code injection, which is not allowed in 10.11.
Just use [menuItem setEnabled:NO]. Also please note that not all menu stuff is available in 10.10 - for instance, checkboxes are not shown and separator item is shown as space. Also, sender parameter in your handlers is always empty NSMenuItem object.
I want to have an icon in the menubar in my Mac app - and the icon should spawn a menu upon clicking. While having more entries in the menu, I would like to have a top row as a universal text entry field - like it is in Spotlight:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3943878/_mine/Screen%20shot%202011-07-16%20at%2012.29.18.png
Is it possible to add such a field to NSMenu? Or should I do it as a panel-type window?
If you're using xcode 4 , make a custom view in interface builder and add a textfield or anything you want to it. In IB also drag and drop a "Menu" from the objects library with as many items as you want in it. Then simply ctrl+click the menu item you want to make into the text field (In your case it would be the top one) and drag to the custom view and select "view". Now when you open the menu, instead of showing a menu item in that space, it shows whatever was in your custom view.
EDIT: As for your comment here's what you should do. Make your menu an outlet by opening the assistant editor view and ctrl+click from your menu to the header file that you want to use. now, simply make a method that will run whenever the menu will open, conveniently apple already made this, it's called menuWillOpen.
- (void)menuWillOpen: nameOfYourMenu{
[self performSelector:#selector(methodExecutedWhenMenuIsClicked) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.0 inModes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:NSRunLoopCommonModes]];
the delay at 0 will make it happen immediately, it must be done in the common modes run loop so that the menu will be updated even while it's open. Now just make the methodExecutedWhenMenuIsClicked and set it so the text field responds.
- (void)methodExecutedWhenMenuIsClicked{
[[yourTextfiled window] makeFirstResponder:yourTextField];
You can put any view in a menu using -[NSMenuItem setView:]. See the long comment in NSMenuItem.h and the section Views in Menus in Application Menu and Pop-up List Programming Topics.
You're probably going to struggle quite a bit. I just tried doing the same thing, and reading the Views in Menus in Application Menu and Pop-up List Programming Topics document referenced by Ahruman, I found this:
A view in a menu item can receive all mouse events as normal, but keyboard events are not supported. During “non-sticky” menu tracking (that is, manipulating menus with the mouse button held down), a view in a menu item receives mouseDragged: events.
I think we're SOL. Apparently Spotlight pops up a borderless window instead.
I'm trying to add some icons to the right hand side of a menu next to a menu item, ideally all right justified. I'm aware that NSMenuItem allows you to add menu items (for instance, see the MenuMadness example). I'm really looking for something like the security / signal strength indicators in the OS X Wifi menu.
One approach that I've seen is to add items to the menu, and use setView to provide an NSView for each item. However, that seems to be more complicated than it should be. Is there a way to just add an icon / multiple icons to the menu?
On the left side of the menu, it's easy, and even possible from Interface Builder.
For the right side, I assume you have read the Apple doc Views in Menu Items. I agree, its far more complicated than it needs to be, with many drawbacks.
Have you considered a hacky workaround?
Just create your menus with no title, and set up an icon that is a very wide icon image, including your title and icon.
You loose the keyboard navigation if the user wants to navigate in your menu by typing the beginning of the menu's title, and it might not work if your titles need to be dynamic, but depending on the context of this feature, it's worth a shot.
Similar to the last item of this menu: