I looked at quite a number of xib files and, until now, for every of them the NSBox/NSTitleCell was a NSTextFieldCell.
Could a NSBox/NSTitleCell be something else than a NSTextFieldCell?
Where to look to answer this type of question?
I'm trying to grasp the xib file format and sources don't agree on NS*flags bits meaning so I'm trying to do it on my own (xcode 3.2).
Does someone know a reliable source about xib files?
Or maybe there was some change in the meaning of flags between some versions?
Answer (By willeke) is
The type of NSBox.titleCell is id so it can be anything.
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Is there a way to modify Xcode's (6.4/7.x beta whatever) code completion in such a way that neither the methods nor the properties of NSObject in a subclass of it are shown? I think, I don't use them frequently and it is pretty annoying when searching for another function whose name I can only slightly guess and then have to scroll through all the unnessecary suggestions coming from NSObject.
Thanks for your help
Not sure that its possible to adjust autocomplete only for NSObject and descendants (of course it might be the way), but there is another nice tool I'm using:
https://github.com/FuzzyAutocomplete/FuzzyAutocompletePlugin
It won't solve a problem of unnecessary suggestions you see, but
it's easier to add and remove from Xcode (comparing to manually internal Xcode files edit)
it solves a problem of "searching for another function whose name
I can only slightly guess"
I'm looking for a grid view / table view / spreadsheet-type control for Cocoa and can't seem to find anything that's in any reasonable state.
I've tried using NSTableView but it's not really meant to be a single cell control.
NSCollectionView doesn't seem to be right either.
Any ideas?
While Matt Ball's spreadsheet view (https://github.com/mattball/mbtablegrid/, mentioned above) is several years old, it does still compile on El Capitan. It must be easier as a starting point than working from scratch. There are several forks of the repository, most notable this one that does seem to be actively developed:
https://github.com/pixelspark/mbtablegrid
It seems like it would be better for those interested to pool contributions than create something new!
We now have NSGridView, which is most likely what any future person reading this will want to use.
I have two basic practical problems:
1) The first one is really stupid. I receive a message saying: "Method definition for 'aIncreasedSelection' not found, together with an "Incomplete Implementation".
Well, that is quite strange, because I don't have this method in neither my .m or .h file (and the class name is mentioned in the remark).
I used to implement this method, but I deleted it because it was redundant. In a certain way, it appears as if my Xcode project can't let go of the method...
2) The second question is also a very mysterious one. I have a couple of viewControllers in which I have put the identical same background, and the identical same buttons. It's really identical in size and position in the screen as well (I defined the pixels). For an unknown reason, when I switch between the views, one of the buttons changes very slightly its color (it is a Photoshop created button with mirror effect on the bottom, it's the mirror that becomes lighter). That is really annoying because it's supposed to be identical; when the user switches views now, he can see that there is a color difference in the button (supposed to be planted as a button in a dock, which should be identical over the entire app)...
Very frustrating as I cannot solve these small mistakes... Any ideas? Thanks!
Regarding your first problem, if you have verified that it no longer exists in your .h or .m file, try to cmd+shift+k and clean your project, then rebuild. This should update everything and in theory solve that issue for you.
As for the second problem, it sounds strange indeed. Is there any chance you could provide pictures somehow? Are you statically loading the image into similar buttons, or are you doing something differently?
Re - opening my project solved my first problem (unlike the refresh - cmd + shift + k, which didn't work). The color problem is not solved despite :-/
It was definitely a bug since I didn't change anything. It is in fact - very confusing!
I want to know how to do something like Adium does, where when you type more text than the field can handle it expands into a new line. Like this:
Either how can I do this, or where in the Adium source code can I find this?
The view in Adium is AIMessageEntryTextView, plus its superclasses AISendingTextView and AITextViewWithPlaceholder, and the actual resizing (as opposed to figuring out the right size as a hypothetical ideal) is done by AIMessageViewController in response to AIViewDesiredSizeDidChangeNotification.
Do note that Adium is licensed under GPLv2, so unless you intend to use the same license when releasing your own project, you can't lift any of Adium's code for this purpose.
I am not exactly sure what Adium itself does there.
But I am pretty sure that you could just use NSTextView.
You can find it at the Apple Developer website.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSTextView_Class/Reference/Reference.html
Furthermore this Tech note for using NSTextField, if anyone wants to do the extra work. ;-)
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1454/_index.html
Does this control have a name? Or is it just a bunch of simple controls merged together? If so, what controls are they?
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3002/picture2xrb.png
It looks like an NSTableView with an a custom cell type and no column header. Have a look at the documentation for NSTableView's tableView:dataCellForTableColumn:row:. For columns which have the same type for all rows you may also set the cell class in interface builder.
I doubt the search box is part of the same control.
You could open the Application's Nib file to see what is in there. Look inside the application bundle. If the application is called Example then you should be able to find the Nib at Example.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib.
The best tool for investigating this is fscript, specifically FScriptAnywhere which will let you determine the class and much other information about any visual element of any Cocoa program (and do a lot of other interesting things with Cocoa programs).
In addition to what toholio said, an easy way to get the look and feel of the bottom button bar is with BWToolkit.