I am incredibly new to this, so please keep that in mind!
I've been at this all night, watched countless videos/haunted
countless forums...I can't find one single answer!
I am trying to make a basic popup menu in Swift/OSX What I need to figure out is:
How can I add more than the 'three items' to this menu
Whatever is selected in the popup, for that info to send an integer
value to another number.
I very much would appreciate your help, Thanks.
A NSPopupButton is a container for a bunch of NSMenuItem objects so to add an item you can use
func addItemWithTitle(_ title: String!)
The NSMenuItem gets constructed for you by the call.
and as you may wish to start from scratch you can use
func removeAllItems()
To clean existing items from the button.
There are also other methods around moving and removing menu items from the button.
A NSPopupButton is-a NSControl so you can use var action: Selector to set the action sent when an item is selected and var target: AnyObject! to control which object receives the message. Or just wire it up in Interface Builder.
protocol FooViewDelegate{
func itemWithIndexWasSelected(value:Int)
}
class FooViewController: NSViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var myPopupButton: NSPopUpButton!
var delegate: FooViewDelegate?
let allTheThings = ["Mother", "Custard", "Axe", "Cactus"]
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
buildMyButton()
}
func buildMyButton() {
myPopupButton.removeAllItems()
myPopupButton.addItemsWithTitles(allTheThings)
myPopupButton.target = self
myPopupButton.action = "myPopUpButtonWasSelected:"
}
#IBAction func myPopUpButtonWasSelected(sender:AnyObject) {
if let menuItem = sender as? NSMenuItem, mindex = find(allTheThings, menuItem.title) {
self.delegate?.itemWithIndexWasSelected(mindex)
}
}
}
All the button construction can be done in Interface Builder rather than code too. Remember that you can duplicate items with CMD-D or you can drag new NSMenuItem objects into the button.
Related
Everyone discussed about how to get rid of the blue outline during right click... but me.
Instead, I'm trying to display the blue outline.
I didn't get any outline when I right clicked my outline view row. The menu appeared but the outline wasn't. You can see that the blue outline is not visible in this picture below:
Below is what I'm trying to achieve.
Update
This is how I implemented the NSMenu. I subclassed the NSOutlineView and made a new protocol to override NSOutlineViewDelegate.
This idea was to make it simple by letting the NSOutlineView ask the NSMenu for each item, so we can implement different menu for each item. It works but the blue outline view doesn't show up during right click.
KRMenuOutlineView.swift
import Cocoa
#objc protocol KRMenuOutlineViewDelegate: NSOutlineViewDelegate {
// This method will ask NSMenu for each item in outline view
func outlineView(_ outlineView: KRMenuOutlineView, menuFor item: Any, event: NSEvent) -> NSMenu?
}
class KRMenuOutlineView: NSOutlineView {
override var delegate: NSOutlineViewDelegate? {
didSet {
if let newValue = delegate {
/*
* Swift doesn't support overriding inherited properties with different type
* like Objective C Does, therefore we need internal delegate.
*/
internalDelegate = unsafeBitCast(newValue, to: KRMenuOutlineViewDelegate.self)
} else {
internalDelegate = nil
}
}
}
private var internalDelegate: KRMenuOutlineViewDelegate?
override func menu(for event: NSEvent) -> NSMenu? {
let point = self.convert(event.locationInWindow, from: nil)
if let item = self.item(atRow: self.row(at: point)) {
return self.internalDelegate?.outlineView(self, menuFor: item, event: event)
}
return super.menu(for: event)
}
}
Then, I use it in my view controller like this:
KRTreeViewController.swift
extension KRTreeViewController: KRMenuOutlineViewDelegate {
func outlineView(_ outlineView: KRMenuOutlineView, menuFor item: Any, event: NSEvent) -> NSMenu? {
let menu = NSMenu(title: "Contextual Menu")
menu.delegate = self
let key = String(utf16CodeUnits: [unichar(NSBackspaceCharacter)], count: 1) as String
let deleteMenuItem = menu.addItem(withTitle: "Delete",
action: #selector(didClickMenuItem(_:)),
keyEquivalent: key)
deleteMenuItem.representedObject = myItem
deleteMenuItem.target = self
return menu
}
#objc fileprivate func didClickMenuItem(_ menuItem: NSMenuItem) {
// ...
}
}
How to properly show a context menu:
If you have created your menu using a storyboard:
First, go to the storyboard and add the menu to the viewController that contains the outlineView.
Then make it an #IBOutlet so you can reference it later.
In a method like viewDidLoad(), add the menu to the outlineView by calling
outlineView.menu = myMenu
where myMenu can either be the one you created in Interface Builder or in code.
You can run the app now and should see the blue outline around the cell.
The problem now is that you don't know which cell the user has clicked.
To fix this, set yourself as the delegate of myMenu and adopt the NSMenuDelegate protocol.
func menuNeedsUpdate(_ menu: NSMenu) {
let row = self.outlineView.clickedRow
guard row != -1 else { return }
for item in menu.items {
item.representedObject = row
}
}
Here you can do whatever you need. This implementation sets the rowIndex as the representedObject of each menu item. Keep in mind that this only works on static outlineViews (ones that don't change in the background) and menus which only go one level deep.
You could also store the index or object represented by the cell (if the outlineView is not static) in a local variable.
I am attempting to present a sheet configuration view (AddSoundEffect) for my main window/view controller (I'm using storyboards), and when the configuration view controller is dismissed, take the values entered in the AddSoundEffect view and pass that back to the main view. My current code in the main view controller:
presentViewControllerAsSheet(self.storyboard!.instantiateControllerWithIdentifier("AddSoundEffect") as! AddSoundViewController
And in the AddSoundViewController.swift file, the code to dismiss it is:
self.dismissViewController(self)
To pass the data, I have a class-independent tuple that I save data to. How do I add a completion handler to presentViewControllerAsSheet, and (optionally) is there a better way to pass the data between view controllers?
Setup: Xcode version 6.4, OS X 10.10.4
Delegation pattern is the easiest way for you.
// Replace this with your tuple or whatever data represents your sound effect
struct SoundEffect {}
protocol AddSoundViewControllerDelegate: class {
func soundViewController(controller: AddSoundViewController, didAddSoundEffect: SoundEffect)
}
//
// Let's say this controller is a modal view controller for adding new sound effects
//
class AddSoundViewController: UIViewController {
weak var delegate: AddSoundViewControllerDelegate?
func done(sender: AnyObject) {
// Dummy sound effect info, replace it with your own data
let soundEffect = SoundEffect()
//
// Call it whenever you would like to inform presenting view controller
// about added sound effect (in case of Done, Add, ... button tapped, do not call it
// when user taps on Cancel to just dismiss AddSoundViewController)
//
self.delegate?.soundViewController(self, didAddSoundEffect: soundEffect)
// Dismiss self
self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: {})
}
}
//
// Let's say this controller is main view controller, which contains list of all sound effects,
// with button to add new sound effect via AddSoundViewController
//
class SoundEffectsViewController: UIViewController, AddSoundViewControllerDelegate {
func presentAddSoundEffectController(sender: AnyObject) {
if let addSoundController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("AddSoundEffect") as? AddSoundViewController {
addSoundController.delegate = self
self.presentViewController(addSoundController, animated: true, completion: {})
}
}
func soundViewController(controller: AddSoundViewController, didAddSoundEffect: SoundEffect) {
// This method is called only when new sound effect is added
}
}
Another way is to use closures:
// Replace this with your tuple or whatever data represents your sound effect
struct SoundEffect {}
//
// Let's say this controller is a modal view controller for adding new sound effects
//
class AddSoundViewController: UIViewController {
var completionHandler: ((SoundEffect) -> ())?
func done(sender: AnyObject) {
// Dummy sound effect info, replace it with your own data
let soundEffect = SoundEffect()
//
// Call it whenever you would like to inform presenting view controller
// about added sound effect (in case of Done, Add, ... button tapped, do not call it
// when user taps on Cancel to just dismiss AddSoundViewController)
//
self.completionHandler?(soundEffect)
// Dismiss self
self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: {})
}
}
//
// Let's say this controller is main view controller, which contains list of all sound effects,
// with button to add new sound effect via AddSoundViewController
//
class SoundEffectsViewController: UIViewController {
func presentAddSoundEffectController(sender: AnyObject) {
if let addSoundController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("AddSoundEffect") as? AddSoundViewController {
addSoundController.completionHandler = { [weak self] (soundEffect) -> () in
// Called when new sound effect is added
}
self.presentViewController(addSoundController, animated: true, completion: {})
}
}
}
Or many other ways like sending notification, ... Whatever suits your needs. But delegation pattern or closures is the best way to go in this specific case.
I missed that your question is about NSViewController. This example is for iOS, but same pattern can be used on OS X without any issues.
The easiest way to detect sheet opening or closing is to use the Sheet Notifications:
class ViewController: NSViewController, NSWindowDelegate {
override func viewDidLoad(){
NSApplication.sharedApplication().windows.first?.delegate = self
}
func windowDidEndSheet(notification: NSNotification) {
}
func windowWillBeginSheet(notification: NSNotification) {
}
}
I have a NSWindow, on which i apply this:
window.styleMask = window.styleMask | NSFullSizeContentViewWindowMask
window.titleVisibility = NSWindowTitleVisibility.Hidden;
window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true;
I then add a NSView behind the titlebar to simulate a bigger one.
Now it looks like this:
I want to be able to move the window, by dragging the light-blue view. I have already tried to subclass NSView and always returning true for mouseDownCanMoveWindow using this code:
class LSViewD: NSView {
override var mouseDownCanMoveWindow:Bool {
get {
return true
}
}
}
This didn't work.
After some googling i found this INAppStoreWindow on GitHub. However it doesn't support OS X versions over 10.9, so it's completely useless for me.
Edit1
This is how it looks in the Interface Builder.
How can i move the window, by dragging on this NSView?
None of the answers here worked for me. They all either don't work at all, or make the whole window draggable (note that OP is not asking for this).
Here's how to actually achieve this:
To make a NSView control the window with it's drag events, simply subclass it and override the mouseDown as such:
class WindowDragView: NSView {
override public func mouseDown(with event: NSEvent) {
window?.performDrag(with: event)
}
}
That's it. The mouseDown function will transfer further event tracking to it's parent window.
No need for window masks, isMovableByWindowBackground or mouseDownCanMoveWindow.
Try setting the window's movableByWindowBackground property to true.
There are two ways to do this. The first one would be to set the NSTexturedBackgroundWindowMask as well as the windows background color to the one of your view. This should work.
Otherwise you can take a look at this Sample Code
I somehow managed to solve my problem, i don't really know how, but here are some screenshots.
In the AppDelegate file where i edit the properties of my window, i added an IBOutlet of my contentView. This IBOutlet is a subclass of NSView, in which i've overriden the variable mouseDownCanMoveWindow so it always returns false.
I tried this before in only one file, but it didn't work. This however solved the problem.
Thanks to Ken Thomases and Max for leading me into the right direction.
Swift3.0 Version
override func viewDidAppear() {
//for hide the TitleBar
self.view.window?.styleMask = .borderless
self.view.window?.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true
self.view.window?.titleVisibility = .hidden
//for Window movable with NSView
self.view.window?.isMovableByWindowBackground = true
}
Swift 3:
I needed this but dynamically. It's a little long but well worth it (IMHO).
So I decided to enable this only while the command key is down. This is achieved by registering a local key handler in the delegate:
// MARK:- Local key monitor
var localKeyDownMonitor : Any? = nil
var commandKeyDown : Bool = false {
didSet {
let notif = Notification(name: Notification.Name(rawValue: "commandKeyDown"),
object: NSNumber(booleanLiteral: commandKeyDown))
NotificationCenter.default.post(notif)
}
}
func keyDownMonitor(event: NSEvent) -> Bool {
switch event.modifierFlags.intersection(.deviceIndependentFlagsMask) {
case [.command]:
self.commandKeyDown = true
return true
default:
self.commandKeyDown = false
return false
}
}
which is enabled within the delegate startup:
func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) {
// Watch local keys for window movenment, etc.
localKeyDownMonitor = NSEvent.addLocalMonitorForEvents(matching: NSEventMask.flagsChanged) { (event) -> NSEvent? in
return self.keyDownMonitor(event: event) ? nil : event
}
}
and its removal
func applicationWillTerminate(_ aNotification: Notification) {
// Forget key down monitoring
NSEvent.removeMonitor(localKeyDownMonitor!)
}
Note that when the commandKeyDown value is changed by the key down handler. This value change is caught by the didset{} to post a notification. This notification is registered by any view you wish to have its window so moved - i.e., in the view delegate
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Watch command key changes
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
self,
selector: #selector(ViewController.commandKeyDown(_:)),
name: NSNotification.Name(rawValue: "commandKeyDown"),
object: nil)
}
and discarded when the viewWillDisappear() (delegate) or the window controller windowShouldClose(); add this
<your-view>.removeObserver(self, forKeyPath: "commandKeyDown")
So sequence goes like this:
key pressed/release
handler called
notification posted
The view's window isMovableByWindowBackground property is changed by notification - placed within view controller / delegate or where you registered the observer.
internal func commandKeyDown(_ notification : Notification) {
let commandKeyDown : NSNumber = notification.object as! NSNumber
if let window = self.view.window {
window.isMovableByWindowBackground = commandKeyDown.boolValue
Swift.print(String(format: "command %#", commandKeyDown.boolValue ? "v" : "^"))
}
}
Remove the tracer output when happy. See it in action in SimpleViewer on github.
I am trying to develop a basic app in Xcode 6.1 and Swift language.
I cant seem to find any IOS 8, Xcode6 and Swift resources yet that help with this. Everything is still xcode 5 and IOS 7.
I have the whole story board done with images buttons and segues. just need to script it.
There are 6 segues all with segue "show".
I am just trying to capture one text field per view controller. upon button press for the segue to the next view controller.
the prepareForSegue thing confuses me.
how do I capture the data from a text field save it to a variable on button press and send that variable info to the next view controller?
That text field I want saved to a variable or let that I can have the final view controller access all the data input from each view controller and then do some basic math.
Any body can help with this?
Assuming that you have two view Controllers here is how you will pass value to the second view controller.
class ViewControllerA: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet var textField: UITextField = nil
...
override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue!, sender: AnyObject!) {
if (segue.identifier == "segueTest") {
var svc = segue!.destinationViewController as ViewControllerB;
svc.passedValue = textField.text
}
}
}
class ViewControllerB: UIViewController {
var passedValue: String?
...
override func viewDidLoad() {
...
if let myPassedData = passedValue {
println(myPassedData)
}
or use
let myPassedData = passedValue ?? ""
println(myPassedData)
}
}
}
How do I get the selected item of an NSOutlineView with using my own data source.
I see I can get selectedRow but it returns a row ID relative to the state of the outline. The only way to do it is to track the expanded collapsed state of the items, but that seems ridiculous.
I was hoping for something like:
array = [outlineViewOutlet selectedItems];
I looked at the other similar questions, they dont seem to answer the question.
NSOutlineView inherits from NSTableView, so you get nice methods such as selectedRow:
id selectedItem = [outlineView itemAtRow:[outlineView selectedRow]];
Swift 5
NSOutlineView has a delegate method outlineViewSelectionDidChange
func outlineViewSelectionDidChange(_ notification: Notification) {
// Get the outline view from notification object
guard let outlineView = notification.object as? NSOutlineView else {return}
// Here you can get your selected item using selectedRow
if let item = outlineView.item(atRow: outlineView.selectedRow) {
}
}
Bonus Tip: You can also get the parent item of the selected item like this:
func outlineViewSelectionDidChange(_ notification: Notification) {
// Get the outline view from notification object
guard let outlineView = notification.object as? NSOutlineView else {return}
// Here you can get your selected item using selectedRow
if let item = outlineView.item(atRow: outlineView.selectedRow) {
// Get the parent item
if let parentItem = outlineView.parent(forItem: item){
}
}
}
#Dave De Long: excellent answer, here is the translation to Swift 3.0
#objc private func onItemClicked() {
if let item = outlineView.item(atRow: outlineView.clickedRow) as? FileSystemItem {
print("selected item url: \(item.fileURL)")
}
}
Shown is a case where item is from class FileSystemItem with a property fileURL.