I have spent way too much time looking for the files owner icon to click-drag to a text field to assign a variable to that field. Then it hit me that the icon only shows on nib files. Not storyboards. So what is the option to assign a variable to a text field, hard coding? What I am trying to do is show the continuous coords for current location in two text fields on my home screen and update as they move. I have all of that coding done just haven't been able to assign the variable to the field. Any suggestions?
It's just slightly different in storyboards, you drag to the view controller instead of files owner.
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I'd like to show information in a second view that's contextualized to what's appearing in the first view. To do that, I'd like to get just the text that's scrolled into view in the NSView. As in the picture I've attached, the whole document is A. The portion that's visible is B. I'm writing this using Objective-C and Swift, so a suggestion in either language would be welcome. Thank you.
I am reworded the above question.
Let's say I am using 20 toolbox buttons and or labels or whatever on a VB window app form, and I have changed the default colors, size, and so on. Is there a way to view in code or design view all the properties and values that have been changed for any one tool (object) in a pop-up window.
In other words instead of having to go to properties and scroll, I push a hot key and magic! In one small pop-up window, I can see the changes for btnone, or lblTwo and or even better, make changes on the fly or go back to default values, or change to new values. Like an Xray format tool in brackets, or google.
The place holder text for the Label property is 'Xcode Specific Label', which when googled turns up nothing.
I assumed it used for identifying the UI element in your code by it's 'Xcode Specific Label' and not the actual text that the button displays in the UI. If so I am interesting in using it in my code since I have buttons with similar functions whose actions I want to send to the same method and differentiate between the two with the sender property by name. I understand that you can do this through the object id but I think that using a name would be clearer. How would I do this?
The Label field identifies the UI element in Xcode. If you name the UI element using the Label text field, you'll notice that element's name changes in the object list, which is to the left of the canvas.
The Label field doesn't do much with regard to code. It exists to make things more convenient in Xcode. In fact, the whole Identity section of the identity inspector exists to make things more convenient for you in Xcode. Suppose you have three text fields in your window. Giving each text field a different label makes it easier to identify each text field.
just the name you typed for the view in the Document Outline,It's a convenient way for you to identify the views in Xcode. as the image shows: I update the view's name to contentView, that means the view is the scrollView's ContentView.
I'm creating a view which provides some fields for the user to fill in - address, phone number etc.
I've seen apps that have populated fields with grey text like 'Fill in your name here' on the Name field, and when the user taps on it the text is gone, a keyboard appears and the view is zoomed in to the textfield(or whatever it is). Also, after filling up that field tapping the 'Next' button on the keyboard brings the user to the next field. I'm trying to do the same but I have no idea where to get sources on this. Pardon my poor googling skills ;p
Tried UITextView and UITextField but there isn't anything related to this on the Interface Builder. Figured it lies with the codes?
It'd be great if I can get some explanation or some links on how this works (: Thanks!
EDIT: okay I played around with the Interface Builder a lil more and realized I could set placeholder as the grey text.
It is in fact a UITextField.
You can get the greyed out text by setting its placeholder property.
I am not sure what you mean by zooming but usually they do use a scroll view or adjust the frame so that it isn't blocked by the keyboard.
The Next button is made available using a UIToolbar instance as the text field's inputAccessoryView. However the implementation is one's own and is not framework provided. You can look at this example to get started.
Noob dumb question, no doubt -- but here it is:
Trying to tutorialize myself with the Apple "Currency Converter" tutorial for Cocoa ( http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCTutorial/05View/05View.html)
Embarrassingly, I'm stuck very early on where the instructions ask me to drag-and-drop a text field onto the Currency Converter window. When attempting to do so, I release the mouse and the text field runs animatedly back to the library palette, refusing to "stick" on the client area of the Window.
Clearly the window is readonly or lacks some state or prerequisite to accept the text field, but what?
Are you sure you're dragging a view object and not a cell? Double check that you're dragging NSTextField and not NSTextCell.
Be sure you're not grabbing a text CELL.
When you select the text field from the Library, check that the description is NSTextField
Have you added a view to the window? Because if there is no view then you won't be able to add any controls.
Drag a "View" object over to your window.