I want to add a new view, created by me, in Powerpoint (in addition to Normal View, Notes View, Slide Sorter, etc.)
My intention is to change the location and size of the notes panel in the normal view, to put it on the right side all across the screen, and to put the slide navigation panel on the bottom
Unfortunately, PowerPoint does not provide the ability to add or change a view until now.
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I want to do something similar to the calendar.app info panels, take a look at the pictures.
Here you can a see a very simple and compact info panel, but if you click on the last row "Add Notes, Attachments, or URL"....
It expands to show additional fields.
How can I achieve this functionality of expanding and collapsing additional controls ?
Can this been done through interface builder and constraints ?
Take a look at Apples example code for NSStackView,
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/InfoBarStackView/Introduction/Intro.html
It will show you how to implement views that collapse and disclose. In Apple's example they do everything programmatically using auto layout constraints, although you could move some of the work to IB if you wanted to.
I would create the view you want and add a tracking area to monitor when the mouse enters and clicks (using -mouseDown: notification) the "Add attachments, notes, URLs" section and use the stack view method to disclose the details.
I am in process of developing custom GUI generator tool (its new GUI tool like glade) and to achieve that i am using ruby-gtk2. I am a newbie to the world of ruby and gtk, so i need a help in a problem which i am struck regarding adding background image to a widget.
Let me explain in detail, the application (i.e.,GTK::window) has two sections say left section and right section (section can be frames,layouts,panned window or equivalent). Left section has a list of all widgets like Button, Label, CheckBox and so on as images. So user who needs to design the GUI will drag and drop any widgets from left section to right sections, on dropping to right section it (i.e., widget) should be re-sizable and also draggable across right section.
Currently i am adding all widgets to eventbox so that on drag n drop on right section i will get all the controls of events like drag_start, drag_motion, drag_end etc..But how can i add an image as background to eventbox, so that i have button image added to eventbox and also handle resize and drag. Concept is user should be able to resize the properties of widget that drops to right section. Need help in implementing this, i know i am missing something to achieve this. Awaiting any suggestions.
I am working on a sample which contains list view to display list of names in the data base. Once the application is launched list view will be invisible. After clicking on some button I am making it to visible. If I make it to visible the control bellow the list view are also visible. And I have button bellow that control, once I hove on the list view the button also displays over the list view.
Please let me now how to solve this problem.
It sounds like you have child windows on top of each other in a dialog. Use ShowWindow(SW_HIDE) to hide the windows that are 'underneath'. So when you make the listview visible, hide the button that is underneath.
On the windows desktop, application windows will properly hide other windows that are underneath one another, but in a dialog, different styles are used, and you have to be careful not to let controls overlap or they can draw on top of each other. Instead you need to hide the ones that you don't want to be visible.
I want to use the same sort of UI style of Xcode has right above the editor pane, as show below:
I've browsed through all the Views in Interface Builder and can't figure out what type of view this is. At this point I'm merely referring to the bar itself; not to the controls nested inside the bar, though I will be adding dropdowns in the same way as this.
What type of view should I be looking for?
TextMate uses one along the bottom of the editor too, which provides similar controls:
see:
$(DEVELOPER_ROOT)/Applications/Utilities/Accessibility Tools/Accessibility Inspector.app
just open Accessibility Inspector.app and move the cursor over the views you're interested in for details (you may need to enable accessibility options in system preferences.app).
it's also helpful to press cmd+F7 to lock onto a view and then to inspect its children.
so... 3 primary options:
1) if you want drag & drop convenience, you can simulate it with a Gradient Button
2) or you can use the button with a custom image in the button to achieve something closer
3) or just create a new view subclass and render it using a CGGradient or NSGradient
Let's say I have a split view, and I want to fill half of it with a table view (a fairly common use case, I would think). Is there any way to tell the table view to size itself to fit the split view or do I really have to size it manually?
I've done this, the way Jon Hess mentions first. Assuming you're using Interface Builder version 3:
Drag and resize your GUI (tableview from what I understand?) component to fit into the enclosing area the way you want it.
Click it to select it.
Press Command-Shift-I to open the inspector window for this GUI component. The inspector window should now actually show that you've selected a "Scroll View".
Click the "ruler" heading to be able to set the sizing. You'll see to the right an animated representation of how your GUI component will behave within its enclosing GUI component, and to the left another represenation of the same, without animation, but with four springs and two struts that you can turn on or off.
Turn all six things on, making them red.
Voilà :-)
It's generally easier to create the subviews first, then use the Layout/Embed Objects In/Split View menu item to create the split view around them.
As far as I know, doing it manually is the only way to go. However, if you turn on "snap to cocoa guidelines", the inner view will snap to the edges of the enclosing view as you drag towards them. This makes it easier than having to manually mouse the edges into place, or manually edit the sizes to match.
You can set all of the springs and struts of the table view to "on" in the size inspector and that will cause the table view to fill the split view. Alternatively, you can use the outline view in the main document window to place the tableview's enclosing scroll view directly into the splitview instead of in an intermediary custom view.