I am trying to make an application with a toolbar controller which view is shown, and for each view shown I want to include a second 'row' for the toolbar, and I found out that to do this you had to do [toolbar setFullScreenAccessoryView:view]. However, the view does not appear until the user toggles fullscreen mode and the accessory view remains after toggling the window back to windowed mode. I would like it to look like the following examples from Mail.app, Preview.app, Dictionary.app:
just place a custom view underneath the NSToolbarView .. so at the top of the window.
dont misuse the fullscreenAccessory view. it if meant for something else.
see How to create a toolbar with "Search" Finder style, rounded buttons working like radio
(it could be any other view too btw :D)
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I have a form in my app that has a floating bar with buttons that animates into the view at the bottom of the window when the user makes any change to any of the data in the form. I have this bar rendering relative to the height of the window so it knows when the keyboard is open or closed and will attach to wherever the bottom of the view window is at any give time.
The issue I have is the form is wrapped in a KeyboardAvoidingView around the form with a behavior of padding and this all works great, however when I make my change and my floating button bar comes up, because the input is at the bottom of the window the bar now covers up the input I'm typing in.
I haven't been able to find a way to fix this yet. I tried disabling the KeyboardAvoidingView I assume that maybe I need to somehow tell the view about this bar that's covering up part of the view but I'm not sure how I do that.
here is a snapshot of what this looks like for reference...
I have a custom navigation bar that looks like this:
I set it as the background image of the navigation bar. But how do I implement the buttons? I want to be able to click on the individual text and have an action happen
Could I possibly add a gesture recognizer over each word on the image?
Put an invisible button on the toolbar for each place you want to have a button. If you want this to look and behave exactly like a normal toolbar, however, you can't have the buttons be part of the background image. It's very easy to make a toolbar that looks like what you have in IB.
It took longer to upload this to imgur than it did to make it!
I'm trying to develop an application in Xcode 4.1. I would like to create an application located in the menu bar, like described in this tutorial:
http://cocoatutorial.grapewave.com/2010/01/creating-a-status-bar-application/
But instead of showing a standard Menu when clicking, I would like to show a more graphical UI with some text fields, buttons, etc. like they do in Fantastical:
http://flexibits.com/fantastical
I hope someone can tell me, how I can do.
Here's the Status Bar Programming Topics guide.
Make an NSStatusItem. Set the item's view to a custom view that you create. This view will appear in the status bar and receive mouse clicks.
Make your custom view handle a mouse click by presenting a window with your custom UI.
It's not necessary to use a custom view. All you have to do is set the status item's target & action to your method which shows the window:
[self.statusItem setTarget:self];
[self.statusItem setAction:#selector(ShowOrHideWindow:)];
In the iPhone Objective-C app, I want to pop-up a window (which is smaller than the main view, and the app does not stop running) when a button is tapped, with textField for the user to input text, and dismiss it when it is done.
This is widely used but I really cannot google the relevant content out.
What view should I use to connect it with the button? AlertView (which seems you cannot add dialogue in), ModalView?
Are there relevant info somewhere?
Thanks.
Make the popup it's own, full-sized window. Put a UIImageView in behind your popup screen, and duplicate the results of the normal window. That way, it will look like a popup window, but it still has the proper animation speed and everything. If you do it as a real popup, the game itself will slow down and look jumpy.
You can create any view and use UIViewController's presentModalViewController: to display a modal view controller (and even animate it).
How would make a Status Item when the actually button is clicked in the Menu Bar not in a drop down menu show or hide a window?
Sorry if this is a bit vague.
NSStatusItem supports the target/action mechanism like many other controls. I haven't used this myself -- I've only ever used an NSStatusItem with a menu attached -- so I don't know when the message is sent (i.e. when the mouse button is clicked or when it's released). If it doesn't do what you want by default, you would need a custom view like Daniel suggests.
To achieve this with NSStatusItem you need to create a custom view and replace the default NSStatusItem view by calling its "setView:" method.
You'll implement code in your custom view to react to mouse clicks by e.g. putting up a window. (You can use a button, or other standard views if it works best for you).
I'll warn you this is a bit tricky to get right. Lots of little nuances e.g. with getting the look of your custom view to look right in the menu bar. But this is the general approach you need to take if you want to override the default menu-prompting status item view.