I have a toolbar in an NSWindow in my Cocoa app, and it works great, but I'm having trouble editing it. When I open it (or double-click on any of its items in the tree on the left in Xcode), the toolbar editing sheet hides behind other views in the NSWindow.
Is there a way to edit a toolbar by itself in a new window or something? Is there a trick to getting other views in my NSWindow to go "below" the toolbar in IB? The toolbar itself is perfectly fine when my program is running. It's just editing it that's a giant pain.
EDIT: Here, the content area of the window has a vertical NSSplitView, and the left half (an NSScrollView) is completely over the toolbar customizing sheet in IB, and the Custom View on the right side is over the sheet as well but it's transparent so I can see through it a little bit:
If I delete the window contents (the NSSplitView), then I can edit the toolbar (like Jay's picture), but that can't be what I'm expected to do every time I want to edit a toolbar item.
Basically editing the toolbar in IB is as easy as double-clicking..
Double-click on either the Toolbar or an Toolbar Item and the Toolbar Editor will open in the Editor area of IB. This is the same view users can see when customizing toolbars at runtime.
To change the toolbar configuration you then change the Default toolbar items area to whatever you desire and hit Done afterwards!
Related
I would like to implement the OneNote app menu in my own UWP app. In the closed state, the menu only shows the 'hamburger' button, but when clicked a menu pane slides in from the left.
I have tried to use the SplitView, but it doesn't allow me to set the width to 0 when collapsed, always showing a narrow line on the left side. I also considered using the 8.1 Flyout control, but that doesn't see to animate the correct way.
So, what's the correct way to implement the OneNote menu behavior?
You need the SplitView, but don't mess with the width of its pane.
Instead, set the DisplayMode to Inline (or Overlay) and toggle the IsPaneOpen property.
I am new in MAC OS X development, I have to align text centre in nsMenuItem but I not find any particular solution. I checked on google but not find any tutorial.
Find some tutorial but not exactly same, in these tutorial we take a NSView in nsMenuItem and then Insert subview in NSVIEW to accomplish it centre align.
Is there is any better solution? Please provide me link if possible.
Edit : I attached screen shot, but this is not working for me.
Thanks
You can set the Attributed String of the menu item, which does allow you to center the text, as well as change the font, color and size of the text as well.
I do not know which version of Xcode/OSX you are using, but under Xcode 5.0.2 you can use the built-in interface builder to edit the attributed strings of menu items.
Click the MainMenu.xib entry, then click the menu you want to edit to open it, then click the menu entry. On the right side of the window there should be some options, if not click the right most square in the group of 3 at the top right of the Xcode window 1.
Once you have the right panel open click the Attributes Inspector icon [2] (4th from the left, looks like a slider type icon). At the bottom of the list of attributes you will see an entry for "Attrib. Title" [3].
That is where you can set a custom font, color and alignment for your menu item.
If you need more control then that provides, you can also embed custom NSViews into your menus which gives you complete control over how the menu will look.
I'm trying to implement my app's settings. So I implement Preference Pane but I need to insert Toolbar to it. That is how looks my IB:
And this is how looks my pane from System Preferences:
You see, my window new height = old height - toolbar height. This is my first time I work with toolbar and prefpane, can you answer is there any restriction to use toolbar iside of prefpane?
The System Preferences application already sets a window toolbar so you cannot have a toolbar in your preferences pane.
I recommend using tabs; look at the NSTabView and NSTabViewItem classes.
Note that NSTabView does not actually require tabs to be displayed (though I recommend making tabs visible to the user). You can configure NSTabView to have no tab frame and still take advantage of it for panel-swapping.
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 would like to have something similar to the "List mode" of the stacks in the Dock.
But it should have the behavior of NSPopUpButton, in terms of displaying the selected object still, when the "drawer" is collapsed.
Each row should contain an image and to text columns.
How would you realize this?
Maybe subclassing NSPopUpButton, to display a CollectionView?
Or having an ordanary button and attaching a window containing a CollectionView to it, when clicked?
Oh and this up and down bars, instead of scrollbars on the side - how's that done?
Why not use a regular NSPopUpButton whose menu assembly is replaced with subclassed NSMenu/NSMenuItem that draws things the way you want? You get all the scrolling behavior for free.
If you insist on using NSCollectionView, however:
1 - Don't subclass NSPopUpButton if you're planning on popping up anything other than a menu. It's built to display a menu. Just use a regular NSButton and manage its -state (NSOnState while the collection view is displayed; NSOffState otherwise) manually.
2 - You could show a borderless transparent window (many examples available online) with a standard collection view / scroll view assembly minus the scroll bars. The borderless window could host the up/down areas (which can be simple views with NSTrackingAreas to detect mouse over). These areas could manually scroll the NSScrollView a bit every n milliseconds using an NSTimer while hovered.