I'd like to perform the following:
when I click on the status bar item (NSStatusItem) I want to highlight it (no menu) indefinitely and when the application loses focus I want to stop highlighting it.
Is there any way of doing this? I can't find it, tbh.
You can probably do this with a custom view that sends the status item a drawStatusBarBackgroundInRect:withHighlight: message.
I doubt there's any way to do it without a custom view, since, as I mentioned in my comment on the question, keeping the item highlighted when the user doesn't have the mouse down on it looks bad.
Old question, but I think it is worth adding this alternative answer.
This will not automatically un-highlight when the application loses focus, but this allows you to highlight without using a custom view (as the other answer requires):
NSStatusItem *statusItem = [self getStatusItem];
[statusItem.button setHighlighted:YES];
You can unhighlight it manually using the same method:
[statusItem.button setHighlighted:NO];
Note I got this answer from a similar question here.
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OK, here's the situation. I have:
A Webview
Lots of NSTextFields
Other unrelated controls
Normally, the Edit > Undo menu item links to First Responder's undo: action. And everything works fine + you can even "undo" while typing in an NSTextField.
Now, what if I want to handle this "undo" action, in a different way, only for my WebView.
I've been thinking of two approaches:
Link the "Undo" item to a custom action and check who is the First Responder. If it's the Webview, then do what needs to be done. Else, "pass" the event to the control. (However, when attempting a [FIRST_RESPONDER performSelector:#selector(undo:)], first it doesn't seem to recognize the selector and last but not least nothing happens.)
Link the "Undo" to the first responder's undo:(as usual), subclass the Webview and add a custom - (void)undo:(id)sender action. In that case though, when the webview is active, the "Undo" item is grayed-out, so I can't do anything whatsoever, not even check whether the custom method would be called.
Suggestions? How would you go about that?
What am I missing?
I think this is the answer: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/WebKit/Protocols/WebEditingDelegate_Protocol/
Also reference this: Removing undo actions for a WebView's NSUndoManager
Is there a way to add a disabled (non-clickable, greyed out) button to a UIActionSheet?
All I see is "addButtonWithTitle" which does not supply any properties to work with.
I believe there is no way to add disabled button in a UIActionSheet. From the class reference:
Use the UIActionSheet class to present the user with a set of
alternatives for how to proceed with a given task. You can also use
action sheets to prompt the user to confirm a potentially dangerous
action. The action sheet contains an optional title and one or more
buttons, each of which corresponds to an action to take.
If the button is disabled, it should not be added into the UIActionSheet in the first place since it is not an alternative on how to proceed with a given task.
UIActionSheet's interface doesn't really give you much control over appearance of the the whole view or the buttons.
You can use some other libraries. If you can't find one that gives such control, it would be simple to you to add that functionality. For example JLActionSheet or RDActionSheet.
You can also, try to retrieve the subviews of UIActionSheet by traversing the view stack recursively. self.view.subviews or by [[UIApplication sharedApplication].windows[0].subviews] "try both, I don't know which one is the right one". You can find the views using introspection, and find the button you want to disable.
I have a problem with my iPad app.
I perform authorization in social networks (facebook, twitter etc.) to post information from app. Several webviews change each other (login, content of post, captcha). They have text fields and I have to show keyboard. After posting I return to some start view with posted information.
It works good, but after posting first news something goes wrong. When I post news one more time, after return keyboard is still on the screen.
I saw here some questions familiar to this, but they wasn't useful.
I tried to make resignFirstRersponder to all webViews, textFields and textViews. Also i\I tried to implement method disablesAutomaticKeyboardDismissal but it doesn't help me.
I don't know where search for problem...
So questions are: why could this happened? How can I solve this? fnd How can I get some information about keyboard? (is it visible, what object has focus etc., anything that could be useful to solve problem)
And one more thing. I have similar app for iPhone and it seems to work correct.
Try this:
[searchBar performSelector:#selector(resignFirstResponder) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.1];
Make sure to replace searchBar with the object that is the actual First responder in your case
Problem is fixed, finally. The reason was the way I had changed visible view. I set a new value to view property of ViewController. And as previous view contains text field with focus on it, focus wasn't lost before changing view (and keyboard was still on the screen), but I had lost handler to previous view.
Solution is: resignFirstResponder to all (or current) inputs BEFORE changing view.
Hope, it's clear. Thanks for your help!
Im looking for some help regarding to put a save like confirmation if some changes where made to a UITextField and UISegmentedControl.
Can I prevent the UINavigationController from pop the view? And then pop based on buttons in a AlertView?
I use the UITextField and UISegmented control to POST data to a webservice.
I perhaps need to use a modalView for this? but wanted first to see if someone have another idea, because I would like to keep navigation clicks down if possible.
Any suggestions for this?
Thanks,
Why not just using a UIAlertView?
EDIT: On second thought, and re-reading your question + comment, I would recommend to use a Modal View with classics OK/Cancel buttons + a UIAlertView(s) for confirmation(s). (UIAlertView "poping" on OK/Cancel is easy to do via UIAlertViewDelegate)
That's what Modal views are for, block UI until some user action has been completed. Like a form. This is how I do all my forms, and how Apple does (just look at the create mail screen for an example, or any form of iOS apps)
Adding a "Magical" action requiring user interaction on the back button of a navigation controller is bad in terms of user experience, if you hit back, you expect the view to pop, nothing else. I would then be surprised if Apple SDK even allows to cancel that event...
You can do what you would like without the need of a modal view.
First, you can use your text field's UITextFieldDelegate to set a flag in your controller when the field content is modified. You can reset this flag when the data is sent out.
Then you could override your UIViewContorller's viewWillDisappear to show an alert to the user in case new data have not been posted at the moment the view is going to disappear and give him the possibility of sending it to the server. This method will be called when you move to a different controller in your navigation UI, and you will not have a chance to "reject" the operation.
I am looking for some code to make a Menu appear next to a button when it is clicked.
What code would I need for this?
Sorry if this sounds a bit vague.
Why not use NSPopUpButton?
NSPopupButton was my first thought as well. It's how apps with the "action gear" buttons accomplish their menus.
If you do have something else in mind though, look at NSMenu's +popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView:. Just hook an action method up to your button, create an NSMenu and populate it with NSMenuItems, and send it to this method along the the current event from NSApplication's currentEvent getter.
If you really need to roll this yourself, rather than using one of the built-in controls that shows a menu, you can create an NSPopupButtonCell and use that to show the NSMenu:
NSPopUpButtonCell *popupCell = [[NSPopUpButtonCell alloc] initTextCell:#"" pullsDown:YES];
[popupCell setMenu:yourMenu];
[popupCell trackMouse:event inRect:[yourButton bounds] ofView:yourButton untilMouseUp:YES];
[popupCell release];
You'd want to adjust the pullsDown:, inRect:, and ofView: arguments as necessary to position the menu the way you want.