I programatically created a box. It can be moved around the screen. The problem is that there are buttons on the screen I made in Interface Builder. When the box moves over a button, it covers the button. How can I make it appear behind the button?
When you add your box to the view, instead of using [view addSubview:box] use [view insertSubview:box atIndex:0].
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I am working on OSX 10.10
I am facing a strange problem of sub view colors getting inverted for HUD Panel.
For example the button when set to default button looks right in Xib file but when executed the look and feel of button is modified by the HUD panel.
I am having a HUD Panel in my Xib file as follows
But when executed the button looses its default button status. It looks as follows
How do I maintain the look and feel of the button after execution. User is not able to judge which action will be the default action due to this look and feel
Try
_defaultButton.appearance = [NSAppearance appearanceNamed:NSAppearanceNameAqua];
Interface Builder follows a set of rules but these rules are not context-dependent. The context I'm talking about is "being displayed in a HUD Panel".
The rule applied in this case is "draw a blueish button in Interface Builder if the button is a default button" even if it's not always what happens (cf. what you're seeing in your second screenshot).
I don't know since which OS X version it's working like that, but now controls in HUD Panels are displayed with a different style (which does not have a special color for default button).
You can confirm this Interface Builder comportment by adding a simple NSTextField in your HUD Panel, it'll draw with a white background in Interface Builder but it will have a black background when running with a gray focus ring.
Interface Builder:
OS X 10.10:
I've never found a way to disable this special styling for controls in HUD Panel but several workarounds (the default button is still working correctly even if not having a special color).
The special styling only occurs when your HUD Panel have a title bar.
self.panel.styleMask = (NSHUDWindowMask | NSTitledWindowMask | NSUtilityWindowMask | NSNonactivatingPanelMask);
If you remove the title bar, it'll display without any special styling:
self.panel.styleMask = (NSHUDWindowMask | NSUtilityWindowMask | NSNonactivatingPanelMask);
At this point, you can implement and draw your own title bar in the panel and mimic the default one. I don't really like this approach because first it's a lot of work for a simple button and the custom styling of controls make them prettier and more easy to read in a HUD Panel.
Another solution was the 'VLC' way. They use HUD Panels but their controls don't have any special styling. They're using BGHUDAppKit which was released when Apple provided HUD Panel without any special controls to go with it. They use it to force the bluish style instead of the greyish one which are now used by default in HUD Panels.
I didn't really like this approach too, I didn't want to add a library for a simple button, library not updated since 2011.
What I end up doing was drawing a custom button (with a simple subclass) for default buttons in a HUD Panel. This solution is quick and allow you to choose the color you want for default button in a HUD Panel (blueish may not be the best for a HUD Panel, your call).
How can I implement swipe to see more options? There are lot of libraries that I could readily use, but they all are designed for iPhone apps. In iPad you have a lot of space, and I want to stack the buttons vertically instead of horizontally.
Is there any library for this? If not, how should I go about building this as a custom cell?
I tried building a custom UITableViewCell class which adds a UIScrollView, but it's not the same as showing the buttons beneath the cell.
Based on your inputs I have created a simple custom cell with basic functionality of swipe to see utility buttons and of course buttons stacked vertically.
What I did was, add a UIView beneath the cell's content view and positioned at right. Now depending on the number of buttons provided each button's height is adjusted accordingly. And delegates are provided for button clicks.
Swipe gestures are added. On swiping left it will animate and shift the cell's content view to reveal the button view. On swiping right it will reset the cell to original position.
You can customise it from here onwards as you wish :)
I have uploaded them over here : https://github.com/srikanth-vm/GSSwipeableCell
I created an app where users can touch buttons on a scroll view to go to another view, but when you scroll, it gets stuck on the buttons, and can only scroll when not touching the buttons.
So I suppose touch up inside would fix this but how would I make all my modal connections into touch up insides?
If you're using the storyboards, then they should be on touch up inside by default.
My guess is that your scrollview has Delays Content Touches disabled, you can set them via interface builder or self.scrollView.delaysContentTouches = YES;
I've seen a couple of apps that show a transparent view on top of the current ui while the keyboard is present and if clicked it hides the keyboard. I looked around the web and couldnt find a solution for this problem.
Simply add a UIButton, custom type, the size of your screen and add it to your view when your text field (or other entry) takes focus. Make sure your edit view is brought to the front of its superview at the point you add the button (to ensure the edit view still responds to touch).
Add a target to the button which dismisses the keyboard ([myTextfield resignFirstResponder]) and removes the button.
Also make sure to remove the button when the textField dismisses normally.
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).