How can I programmatically select an NSToolbar item?
[toolbar setSelectedItemIdentifier:[theToolbarItem itemIdentifier]]
This code only selects it. I want to send it's action too, so that it changes panes.
You could set the target and action of the NSButton in the nib file itself, or if you need to do it programmatically, then create an IBOutlet to the NSButton and do it in code.
When you use an NSButton in a toolbar item, it effectively acts like an NSButton would anywhere else in your interface, rather than as an NSToolbarItem per se. For example, you won't be able to easily disable or enable the button through the use of the standard -validateToolbarItem: or -validateUserInterfaceItem:; rather, you'll need to have an IBOutlet to the button in question, or otherwise use bindings to enable or disable the button.
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Like the title says, I want to automatically open the menu at certain intervals. Preferably from within the program itself, as I am sure I could do something manually with applescripts+cron, which I don't want to use.
I am talking about a menu/button/whatever from the OSX menubar. Just to be clear. No custom views, just a plain nsmenu.
For opening an NSStatusItem menu, I found it easier to call the performClick method on the button belonging to the NSStatusItem. That way I didn't have to worry about properly passing an event or view to popUpContextMenu. Something like this:
statusItem.button?.performClick(nil)
You can programatically show an NSMenu by calling:
[NSMenu popUpContextMenu:YOUR_MENU withEvent:MOUSE_EVENT forView:YOUR_VIEW]
To construct the event you can use NSEvent's +mouseEventWithType:location:modifierFlags:timestamp:windowNumber:context:eventNumber:clickCount:pressure:
Note: if your menu is an NSStatusItem menu, you will have to set the item's view to be able to popUp the menu.
Is it possible to do navigation within the same window in a mac application ?(Like it is possible in ios apps).I want to show each view in the same window instead of opening different windows on a button click.
e.g When a user clicks a button then the next page should be loaded in the same window.(The next page will have nothing in common with the current page.)
You may use Tab View for easy switching between views on a same window.
UPDATE:
You may also customize your tab view , make it tabless (In the attributes inspector set style to tabless) and use your buttons to switch between views.
You may take help from the following link : http://devcry.heiho.net/2012/01/nstabview-tutorial.html
OR
You may add or remove subviews from your window on button clicks, using
[[yourWindow contentView] addSubview: yourSubview]; // Add subview to window
[yourSubview removeFromSuperview]; //Remove subview
UPDATE:
Steps to swap between views using a tabless tab view.
Drag a NSTabView to your xib.
Set the no. of tabs in attribute inspector to no. of views you want.
Design each view of the tab as per your requirement.
Now in the attribute inspector of tabview, set style to tabless.
Now drag the buttons you want to use for swapping between views. Suppose Button0 and Button1 are for 1st and 2nd view of your tab view.
Create a IBOutlet for your NSTabView in your .h file. Bind it to the referencing outlet of you tabview.
IBOutLet NSTabView* tabview;
Set a IBAction for both your buttons in your .h class file.
In the button action method for button1, use
- (IBAction)button1clicked:(id)sender
{
[tab selectTabViewItemAtIndex:0];
}
Similarly in button2 action method use:
[tab selectTabViewItemAtIndex:1];
In this way you can have any no. of views and you may select any view on button click using
[tab selectTabViewItemAtIndex:(index of the view you want to load)];
In general you want to google for view swapping.
There are tons of examples out there. Some from Apple and lots elsewhere.
Much of it is very similar to iOS.
You need to read the docs a bit too.
Understand NSView and how to load views from nibs, how to create view objects in code, how to add a subview and how to remove a view.
There are many approaches to having different views for different reasons. The right approach is a combination of style, experience and what your app actually needs to do.
Cocoa includes NSBox, NSTabView, and lots of others. Those two can be configured to not display any visual indication that they are containers.
You will also need to understand at least a little about NSWindow to understand its content view (the root container of other views generally)
I place a single table view cell on my view using interface builder and add an accessory type, a selection color and enable user interaction.
My problem is that the cell only is highlighted when the user taps on the arrow icon. But it also should be highlighted when the user taps on the text label inside it, he can tap anywhere on the cell.
How can I achieve this?
A UITableViewCell is really only meant to be used within the context of a UITableView (which knows how to handle and/or delegate the selection & highlighting of the cell).
Having a UITableViewCell outside of the context of a table is a somewhat unexpected user interface.
Couldn't you do what you want to do with a UIButton instead?
Or a UIView that has two UIButton subviews (or at least one UIButton subview to contain a widget graphic that looks like the disclosure accessory)? That way the things you want to get highlighted would definitely happen, as opposed to depending on a nonexistent [UITableView didSelectCellAtIndexPath:] method that doesn't exist in a view that isn't a UITableView delegate.
I'm adding a toolbar programmatically inside an interface inheriting NSObject <NSToolbarDelegate>, and implementing these methods:
- (NSToolbarItem*)toolbar:(NSToolbar*)toolbar itemForItemIdentifier:(NSString *)itemIdentifier willBeInsertedIntoToolbar:(BOOL)willBeInsertedIntoToolbar;
- (NSArray *)toolbarSelectableItemIdentifiers: (NSToolbar*)toolbar
- (NSArray *)toolbarAllowedItemIdentifiers:(NSToolbar *)toolbar
- (NSArray *)toolbarDefaultItemIdentifiers:(NSToolbar *)toolbar
I also add a button by calling setView on a NSToolbarItem. This view contains an NSButton and is in the .XIB interface.
However, setAction on the same item does not work, due to reason described at http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/291782-nstoolbaritem-custom-view-setaction.html#291783.
How do I implement this solution?
You could set the target and action of the NSButton in the nib file itself, or if you need to do it programmatically, then create an IBOutlet to the NSButton and do it in code.
When you use an NSButton in a toolbar item, it effectively acts like an NSButton would anywhere else in your interface, rather than as an NSToolbarItem per se. For example, you won't be able to easily disable or enable the button through the use of the standard -validateToolbarItem: or -validateUserInterfaceItem:; rather, you'll need to have an IBOutlet to the button in question, or otherwise use bindings to enable or disable the button.
I made a Cocoa application that has an NSTableView, an NSTextField, and an NSButton. The user enters text into the text field and clicks the button. When the user does this, I want the text in the textfield to be placed in the NSTableView. I find that I can't even bind an IBOutlet to a cell in the NSTableView. What should be done?
The Model-View-Controller pattern, which is used extensively in Cocoa is your friend here.
What you need to do is to bind the NSTableView to an array (The model). Then configure the button so that a click tells the controller to add the content of the text field to the array and if the bindings are set up correctly the NSTableView (The View) will be updated.
What I think you need to do is make a class, AppController for instance which will be your data source and the delegate of the NSTableView. So you need the following.
Two IBOutlets (one for the NSTextField and one for the NSTableView)
An IBAction for the NSButton.
Make those connections in Interface Builder.
Remember to use the mandatory delegate methods (there are two of them) so you can add the data from your data source (usually a collection class..an array, dictionary...etc.