I have an NSPopoverTouchBarItem in my Touch Bar, created in Interface Builder.
The popover has a custom NSView inside it, and want to load data in it only when the view is activated, but I can't find any way to recognize when the contained NSTouchBar or NSView becomes visible.
According to docs, NSTouchBarDelegate does not have any delegate methods for the view appearing, either.
Which class should I subclass, or should I be monitoring viewWillDraw on my custom NSView and set up some hacky scheme?
The docs were not too clear, but subclassing NSPopoverTouchBarItem gives you -(void)showPopover:(id)sender and -(void)dismissPopover:(id)sender.
You can then define a delegate method to tell the parent class that this popover did show.
-(void)showPopover:(id)sender {
[super showPopover:sender];
[self.delegate touchPopoverDidShow];
}
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I'm missing something fundamental about NSView. I have a Cocoa Application with an Objective C class named DataSource that is just a regular class, it's not in the nib. The data source has a single instance variable, an NSColor *, and it has a getter and setter.
The view class instantiates the DataSource in awakeFromNib:
- (void)awakeFromNib{
NSLog(#"awakeFromNib");
ds = [[DataSource alloc] init];
}
and then queries the DataSource for the color to use in drawRect. It works fine. I also implement
- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *) anEvent;
in the view class, change the color of the DataSource, and then call
[self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
and it also works as I expect when I click in the custom view.
But if I hook up a button in the nib, wired to this IBAction in the view class:
- (IBAction)buttonPushed:(id) sender {
NSLog(#"buttonPushed");
[ds setData:[NSColor cyanColor]];
[self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
}
the data source updates, but drawRect is never called, despite setNeedsDisplay. In my more complicated version, if I click in the view (in a way that doesn't change the color), I will then get the update (caused by the button). Something is delaying drawing. How can I fix this?
Update: There is no controller and there are no outlets. The NSView subclass contains buttonPushed. The data source updates immediately upon button push, but drawing is delayed, despite calling setNeedsDisplay:YES from the view class. Drawing is delayed indefinitely, unless something else happens to trigger it.
Where is the IBAction located? Are you using some view controller? Is the NSView an outlet in that controller?
I'm new to Cocoa dev, so many concepts of it are not clear to me...
I'm trying to build a simple app which will use Flickr API to retrieve user photosets and show them in a NSCollectionView, by clicking them, will start to download the photos of the photo set.
I'm using Xcode 5.0.1 with latest SDK which is 10.9
After reading some articles about how to use binding to deal with NSCollectionView, I'm now facing another problem regarding handling events in NSCollectionViewItem.
Per I understanding, mouse events can be easily handled by implement
-(void) mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent
In a NSView subclass, say
#interface MyViewController : NSView {
}
And assign the view custom class to the subclass I made (MyViewController) in InterfaceBuilder.
Now, I have no problem to do as above, and the mousedown did handled as expect in most of widgets.
The problem is, I have a NSCollectionViewItem subclass as below:
#interface MyItemController : NSCollectionViewItem {
}
I'm trying to implement mousedown method there, this class was set to as File's Owner in a separated nib file. And the view will be automatically load when the NSCollectionView loaded.
Now, MyItemController cannot be as customer class in the view object in IB which is obviously because of it is not a NSView subclass but a NSCollectionViewItem subclass.
If I write a subclass of NSView and make the custom class of view object, I can get the mousedown.
However, I cannot get the representedObject and index of NSMutableArray in this approach and they are the essential information I need.
So my question is, what is the right way to deal with mouse events view of NSCollectionViewItem?
My code in GitHub here:
https://github.com/jasonlu/flickerBackupTool
Thanks!
UPDATE
I found a approach to solve this problem is by subclassing NSView and implement mousedown and use super, subviews to get and index and the array itself
- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent {
NSCollectionView *myCollectionView = (NSCollectionView *)[self superview];
NSInteger index = [[myCollectionView subviews] indexOfObject:self];
NSLog(#"collection view super view: %#",myCollectionView);
NSLog(#"collection index: %ld",index);
NSLog(#"array: %#", [[myCollectionView content] objectAtIndex:index]);
}
It seems work, but I'm not sue if this is the best practice, it looks like depends on view too much and took a long way to reach the array.
I wouldn't bet that NSCollectionView always creates all subviews (subviews which are far away from the viewing area might be delayed and/or reused). Therefore, I wouldn't rely upon subview searching.
Overload NSViewController to create an NSView so that the representedObject assigned to the NSViewController is accessible from the NSView. From there you could search the actual content for index determination.
Overloading NSCollectionView and recording the actual index during view creation would probably not work well because a deleted item probably doesNot re-create any views.
I have created a subclass of NSView that allows me to easily change the background color via the method - (void)setBackgroundColor:(NSColor *)aBackgroundColor.
I want my view controller's main view to be this subclass, so I initiate it with self.view = [[BetterNSView alloc] initWithFrame....
On the next line, I try to set its background color: [self.view setBackgroundColor:[NSColor greenColor]]. But the compiler complains, saying that NSView doesn't have the method setBackgroundColor.
To solve this, I need to use typecasting: [(BetterNSView *)self.view setBackgroundColor:[NSColor greenColor]];. That works. But I'd like to not need the typecasting.
How do I tell the compiler that the view property of the view controller is the BetterNSView subclass? Remember, I'm not using IB.
You have two reasonable choices.
Make an accessor on your view controller with the right type that just passes through to the view property.
Deal with the typecast.
Really, this is one of this situations where typecasting is okay.
I would like to track each time a certain window appears (becomes visible to the user) in a OS X app. Where would be the most adequate place to call the tracker?
windowWillLoad, maybe?
I expected to find something like windowWillAppear but it seems I'm thinking too much iOS.
How about getting notification such as NSWindowDidBecomeMainNotification, By main I guess the one which is top most on screen directly visible by user.
see : Apple Documentation
Yes, one would expect that a window would notify its delegate or its controller with a windowWillAppear or windowDidAppear message, or post a documented notification like NSWindowDidAppearNotification. But alas, none of those exist. I filed a bug report with Apple and was given the advice to use a storyboard and a view controller instead. This is unhelpful in legacy apps that already use a bunch of window controllers and xibs.
You could subclass NSWindow and override orderWindow:relativeTo: to send a notification. Most, but not quite all, of the messages that make a window show itself ultimately go through this method, including orderBack:, orderFront:, makeKeyAndOrderFront:, and -[NSWindowController showWindow:]. But orderFrontRegardless does not go through orderWindow:relativeTo:, so you would also want to override that for completeness.
Another way to be notified is to make a subclass of NSViewController that controls some view that's always visible in the window. The view controller will receive viewWillAppear and viewDidAppear.
If you're subclassing NSWindow or NSViewController already for some other reason, either of these is a reasonable solution.
If you're not subclassing NSWindow already, and don't have an NSViewController subclass for a view that's always visible in the window, then another way is to use Cocoa bindings to connect the window's visible binding to a property one of your objects. For example, I have a custom NSWindowController subclass. I gave it a windowIsVisible property:
#interface MyWindowController ()
#property (nonatomic) BOOL windowIsVisible;
#end
and I implemented the accessors like this:
- (BOOL)windowIsVisible { return self.window.visible; }
- (void)setWindowIsVisible:(BOOL)windowIsVisible {
NSLog(#"window %# became %s", self.window, windowIsVisible ? "visible" : "hidden");
}
and in awakeFromNib, I bind the window's visible binding to the property like this:
- (void)awakeFromNib {
[super awakeFromNib];
[self.window bind:NSVisibleBinding toObject:self withKeyPath:NSStringFromSelector(#selector(windowIsVisible)) options:nil];
}
When the window becomes visible, the setWindowIsVisible: setter is called with an argument of YES. Note that if the whole app is hidden and reappears, the setter is called again, even though it wasn't called with argument NO when the app was hidden. So be careful not to assume the window was previously hidden.
Also, the binding might create a retain cycle, so you should probably unbind it when the window is closed, unless you want to keep the window and controller around. Note that the window does post NSWindowWillCloseNotification when it's closing, so you don't need any special magic to detect that.
I'm using an NSViewController class with a single view in it to display a progress indicator bar and some text fields. I'm trying to use progressIndicator setMaxValue:and theTextField setStringValue: but neither of these are doing anything.
I've done this before and I've checked and rechecked, it's fairly straightforward, the fact that it's not working makes me think that it has to do with the fact that the class is NSViewController. Which is why I tried
Timers *aTimer = [[Timers alloc] init];
[aTimer.timerNameLabel setStringValue:#"name"];
[aTimer.progressIndicator setMaxValue:x];
in the app delegate which is an NSObject class, but that didn't work either.
I've tried looking around the NSViewController documentation but I can't find anything that says it can't set those values so I don't know what's happening. What am I doing wrong?
You probably want to use -initWithNibName:bundle: instead of a regular init to initialize your custom nib.
EDIT: It seemed the problem was due to the view not being queried before getting other objects. By calling [myController view] you actually load the nib, which isn't done automatically when you initialize the view controller. So before you can use any element of the view, you need to call [myController view]