I want to have a window with a hidden title, as seen in Safari or Xcode, but using a titlebar accessory view instead of a toolbar (I want more control over arrangement and content than a toolbar provides). Is this doable?
I haven't quite been able to make it work. If I set my window's titleVisibility to hidden, and my accessory view's layoutAttribute is bottom, then the title area is empty except for the standard close/minimize/zoom buttons, and my accessory view appears below that.
If I change the layoutAttribute to right, then my accessory view appears to the right of the standard buttons where I want it, but the bottom is cut off because the title bar isn't tall enough, and the view also doesn't resize horizontally with the window.
Is there a way to make this work? Or do I have to use a toolbar?
Update: I used Xcode's visual debugger to examine Xcode's own title bar, and found that it is using a toolbar. The debugger refuses to attach to Safari, so I'm left wondering how it does the new tab button. I imagine that button is a right-pinned accessory view, and the rest is a normal toolbar. Safari's toolbar is still customizable, so that seems most likely.
I decided to go ahead and use a toolbar, and it's working pretty well.
I took my NSTitleBarAccessoryController subclass and made it inherit from NSViewController instead.
I created a non-customizable toolbar for my window, with a single "Image Toolbar Item" in both the allowed and default sets.
The toolbar item has a height of 32 and a max width of 10000 so it can stretch to fill the title bar.
In my toolbar delegate, in toolbarWillAddItem:, I instantiate the view controller from the nib and put its view into the item.
A text label that is effectively the new window title has its value bound to the window's title.
To match the spacing in Xcode's title bar, use a left and right margin of 1 pixel (zero will cut off the edges) and a top margin of 5.
window.titleVisibility = .hidden moves the toolbar into the title area.
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How do you change the width of a button in a tool bar on Mac? I can change the width in interface builder but it only updates if the width is larger than the current size. If I try to make it smaller it doesn't change in tool bar.
Not sure if you found an answer yet, but I was recently looking to do this as well for a popup button. The answer is to create the button outside the toolbar first. Then once you create it you can drag it onto the toolbar area and it will be added as a toolbar item.
For example, I created a popup button on my main window and set it to the width that I wanted. Then I opened the toolbar section and dragged that button onto it... and it worked.
Good luck.
I built my project as a Tab Bar Application that utilizes the UITabBarController.
I've set all the auto layout constraints for all my subviews and it looks right in the preview. When my application first starts, I hide the tab bar in viewDidLoad. Once a button is clicked, I hide the view and show the tab bar.
My problem is that the constraints adjusted themselves to the hidden tool bar and everything shifts down the length of the height of the tab bar. If I go to the second tab and back to the first, the constraints are back to normal. Is there an easy way to deal with this? I need to find out how to either hide the tab bar in other way that doesn't compromise my constraints, or how to allow the first view to extend down over the tab bar. Please help.
Hiding tab bar liks so.
[self.tabBarController.tabBar setHidden:YES];
Oddly enough. When I go to set the vertical constraint to the bottom of the view, the distance to the bottom of the view is equal to the top of the tab bar even though the height of the tab bar is 50 px.
Is it possible to use a label at a toolbar?
I would like to display a number in a label. It is easy in a view but now I want it to be displayed in the toolbar.
I can drag a label to the toolbar, no problem, but the content is not visible there, even if the name Label is visible in the IB.
More info: If I drag a label into toolbar on an single view it works perfectly to display any text or number in the label even in the toolbar.
But the problem I seem to have is it does not work at a toolbar if the view is a scrollview!!
Buttons, bar buttons, no problem, but just the label does not show up when I run the app.
Why are the toolbar items behaving differently if the view is a scrollview?
It is better not to use a label for a toolbar but a UIBarButtonItem. Then you select in IB plain style and you can display the text in title.
I'm trying to make my first Cocoa app (previously I was making iOS apps) and what I wish to do for my custom view is make it's title clickable with indicator (accessory) triangle facing down.
Clicking the title would open a popup/menu with my items.
How is that doneable in Cocoa?
Rdelmar's answer is probably the easiest way to go, but may not do exactly what you might want to do (which is replace the actual title with a pop up item, instead of having a popup button under the title in the toolbar area). With respect to functionality your application will probably work just as well using the toolbar.
If, however, you truly want to replace the actual title, the means of going about this would be to set the NSWindow title text to #"" to hide it, and redraw it by sticking in your own view.
[[[theWindow contentView] superview] addSubview:theSubview];
This basically tells the superview of the main content view to add another subview (direct "translation" from the code), and you'll have to tinker with the frame of this new subview to have it be positioned where the title should be positioned (as now it's free to be placed anywhere in the window frame, including on top of the title bar, as opposed to simply inside the content view).
theSubview can be your popup button, or whatever you want, and you'll also probably have to custom draw the popup button to match the original drawing of the window title.
You can do this by adding a toolbar to your window in IB. Once, you add the toolbar, you can double click on it to open the customizer view of it. Drag a popup button into the Allowable Toolbar Items area and after it is inserted there you can drag it into the bottom area which shows the layout of the toolbar -- you can also drag out any of the default items there that you don't want.
I have some questions about this window:
What type this window is (I've found that only "Textured Window" has rounded bottom corners)?
Why it doesn't have a title? Could I add it?
How to add a label to the title (word counter).
How to add a bottom bar?
This is just a plain old NSWindow. It's not textured. You can set a title with setTitle: in code or the Title field in the IB inspector. Tweetie's window doesn't have a title because the developer chose not to give it one.
The bottom bar is created by setting the content border on the window. Look under the Size tab in the IB inspector. (Uncheck "Autosize" and put in a value.) You can also pick "Large bottom border" from the popup menu in that tab and have IB set it up for you.
You can add a label in Interface Builder. Just type "label" into the Library filter search box and it will come up.