I'm just wondering how to implement Safari-like tab view? Like this gif below, with dragging out and in animations.
And also the show all tabs feature.
Some of these features (and some others for customisation) are available with this control: https://github.com/onekiloparsec/KPCTabsControl
(disclaimer: I'm the main author).
NSTabView is one of the least customizable of all the NSControl.
Many people have used the popular PSMTabBarController (open source) as an alternative, which supports dragging tabs.
As far as animation is concerned, I've never tried animating a
Drag/Drop item, but it sounds really cool... Let me know if you find a way to change a drag image once it's been created.
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We need to implement a horizontal scroll control in Xamarin.Forms, that would not just allow scrolling through items via swipe, but would magnify elements in the row as they approach a center of the scroll control. The design of the layout desired is this:
Thus far I wasn't able to find any control for Xamarin or Xamarin.Forms that implements such behaviour.
Please either provide a hint on how to approach the implementation of such functionality via extending the UIScrollView, or point to a control or example that related to the requirement. Thank you.
You can use the CarouselView, but it's still in the preview. So, the best way to implement it at the moment is to use the CustomRenderers
Several places in OS X (in this example, the Users & Groups pane in System Preferences) have circular image views that allow the user to either drag in an image, like in an editable NSImageView but also allow them to click to show a popover that allows various other choices of image sources.
I have checked the ImageKit framework, but the only thing I found similar is the image taking sheet.
How can I make use of this feature in my own Cocoa applications? I'd imagine it is implemented in some standard frameworkâbut any pointers on implementing something like this would be quite appreciated.
You will have to go down the custom control root as this is not available as a stand alone control.
However you have all the prerequisites.
The circular image view
There a several ways to implement this. You could try using a standard Cocoa button and customise as needed. Although it might just be easier to build from scratch by subclassing NSView. This was you can avoid all the NSCell stuff. I would do the latter.
The popover
Roll your own master-details type view controller to be displayed as the popover's content. In the left have a NSTableView (the master), the right have a NSCollectionView (the details). Below the collection view add some buttons.
i need to have a toolbar similar to this one :
I tried with a NSSegmentedControl with the NSSegmentStyleSmallSquare style but it doesn't look like the Xcode toolbar.
Also, i need to have a split view like in XCode with a very thin border (of one pixel ?) but the NSSplitView hasn't this style (even with NSSplitViewDividerStyleThin).
Is there a way to achieve this in Interface Builder or with another way (override drawRect ?) ?
Thank you
Not really. I mean you could probably use a few UIButtons with images and additional UIImageViews for the gradient background, but considering that this would be completely static (no easy way to rearrange the tabs, add a new tab, etc) I would really recommend writing your own tab control for that.
XCode 4 (but also iTunes and other Mac apps) provide side or bottom bars that can be shown or hidden with a smooth animation as the user presses a button.
How can I obtain a similar effect in my applications?
You can use NSSplitView to do that. You can have more than 2 subviews in a split view (left|center|right) and you can build a kind of hierarchy for the different bars (center consists of top and lower split views).
The show/hide effect is not built in, though. But you should be able to use the animator to do that. Most certainly you can also define animations for hiding a view.
You could also use the BWSplitView of http://brandonwalkin.com/bwtoolkit/ where the show/hide animation is already included.
You could also consider subclassing NSViewAnimation, which I believe Xcode uses in a number of places to achieve its fancy animation effects.
Apples Application like Pages and Numbers always show an additional small Toolbar under the main Toolbar. Is there an object like this in the Interface Builder or do I have to build it from scratch?
I looked in the IB Library but found nothing so far.
You use NSSegmentedControl objects to do that, styled to Capsule. To achieve segmented controls with labels aligned underneath (which are clickable, like in Mail.app and Preview.app), you need to put them into toolbar button groups. That can't be done in IB. See this discussion in the Cocoa mailing list:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/204390-capsule-style-toolbar-controls.html
There is no build-in control for that. You can take a look at the BWToolkit from Brandon Walkin. It has a lot of nice controls to build Apple-like applications. Maybe it can fit your needs...
It's just a simple view containing various controls. You could build most of it directly in Interface Builder. Just create an NSBox, give it a background color and then place "Mini"-sized controls in it.