I'm working on a program that can play songs off an iPod. I want to be able to put functional Back, Play/Pause and Next buttons on its Aero Peek thumbnail like this:
For those who can't see it: http://i45.tinypic.com/1yua0m.png
How would I do this in VB6?
EDIT: Can I also create a jump list for my app? For this app, I only need taskbar jump lists. For others, I'll need taskbar and start menu jump lists so posting code to achieve both would be appreciated.
EDIT 2: I have uploaded a sample of how to use the ITaskBarList3 interface to add buttons to the window preview (and handle their click events), add an icon overlay, clip the window preview and add a progress bar to the program's taskbutton. Download it here.
Look at the Taskbar Thumbnail Toolbar feature of Windows Explorer. This does use a COM interface so I don't know how practical it is to use for VB but I beliver the IDLs are available if you look.
You can also find a C# example and the UI guidelines on MSDN.
The Jumplist information is also covered on the same pages.
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Does anyone know how Apple creates their rollover menus in the Contacts "business card" view*? I am trying to replicate that interface in an App I'm writing, but I'm not sure how to get there via XCode. I'm currently running Mavericks...
Thank you in advance!
* i.e. the "work" heading for an address is a context-sensitive popup menu that allows you to copy the address, open in maps, etc...
I wasn't able to replicate the Contacts interface exactly (I suspect they are doing some custom drawing routines), but I came up with something that was good enough for me. I created pulldown buttons with the "gradient" style, and visual set to "bordered".
Here is the key: during startup, I call the following:
[myButton setShowsBorderOnlyWhileMouseInside:true];
When you hover over the button, it highlights. Click, and the menu drops down. Perfect!
I'm trying to hide the system tray icon of a program that I'm calling with my program. I'm currently working on a program that provides guides and quick resources to other members of my team. I've got the program to load an AutoHotKey file at launch but the AHK icon shows in the System Tray/Notification area of the task bar. I would like to hide that icon.
I'm currently working in VB.net
So, I don't want to hide anything from the taskbar, I just want to hide the icon of AHK from the system tray.
I have done some looking around and seen some things with the Shell_NotifyIcon but I'm not sure how to implement this.
Figured it out. AutoHotKey has a built in feature to hide the tray icon.
HideTrayIcon
Place that inside the script and it will not show it in the system tray.
I know Magnific Popup supports certain events such as Close, Next, etc. out of the box. But does Magnific support custom buttons and events if I wanted to add my own event hooks, such as Download, email, buy, or whatever button I wanted to created. I'm really just looking to be able to create my custom menu within the image 'div' area or directly beneath it. An example somewhere would be great. I just haven't been able to find any.
Before starting I would recommend reading the Magnific Popup Documentation
and familiarizing yourself with the available examples, more specifically the Pin it button example.
Naturally, you will have to code out the functionality of your menu items as you need them.
For the how to's on the specifics of your buttons you will have to do more specific searching as it does not appear that there is a built in
magic(click, poof)
{
//amazing things happen
}
function.
Good luck!
When I click on buttons in the menu bar (such as "About Program") when the program is running a new window pops up displaying information. How do I edit the windows associated with the buttons?
In Interface builder I manage to load "Main Menu" which allows me to customize the menu bar, but it doesn't allow me to work with the windows associated with the buttons. How would I edit these windows?
Mac OSX Snow Leopard, Xcode 3.2.6
EDIT: I am not specifically asking for steps for the "About Panel". I am looking for a general procedure for editing panels associated with buttons in the menu bar. In addition to the "About" panel I would also want to work with panels such as the "Help" panel. The "About" panel was just an example.
The standard About panel isn't in your nib; it's generated within the framework.
You can change the text of the panel by writing a Credits.rtf or Credits.html file and including that in your app bundle. (You may already have Credits.rtf supplied by the project template. If so, you should just edit that.)
If you want to make more radical changes, you'll need to create your own panel and change your About menu item to show it instead.
As far as a general procedure...no, there's no single procedure that would let you customize any standard panel in the same way. They all have their own mechanisms (e.g. some can display more panes when plug-in components are installed; some provide APIs to hide or show certain parts; some, like the About box, use bundle filename conventions to decide what to do).
For the Help panel specifically...you can't change anything about it except the web page (i.e. the help content). The toolbar, etc. is all handled by Apple. I suggest looking at this documentation for more, which also links to other important documents:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/OnlineHelp/Concepts/ComprehenHelp.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000017-BBCCFHAC
I'd like to create a dragster/dropzone like dock menu. Looks a bit like a stack with a nsview in it.
After a lot if documentation searching and googling I've found a way to determine a dock icon's location.
(http://cocoadev.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=1431)
Is nzbdrop creating a view which just looks like an stack to display it's menu or is there a better way of creating this?
Additional info:
I'm not looking for the drop like functionality just the nice way the DropBox window is displayed as an bubble/stack menu on top of it's app icon.
For anyone wanting to create something similar;
Matt Gemmell created a nice solution for this called MAAttachedWindow:
http://mattgemmell.com/source
Not exactly sure I understand your question but the Dragster and Dropzone apps clearly work something like this:
They have an application icon in the dock.
They respond to a drop request in the standard fashion.
Upon receiving a drop request, they open an application window above the dock which also accepts a drop request.
According to the link you provided, they use the accessibility API to locate their dock icon so they can open the application window above the dock icon.
The window is just a standard application window although most likely modal and floating (like a help window.) It can have any appearance you wish.