I am creating an application in Qt to modify settings for a USB audio device. I need these setting to appear in System Preferences in OSX.
According to the apple documentation (Preference Pane Programming Guide) the NSPrincipalClass entry in the bundle Info.plist would need to specify a Qt binary that subclasses NSPreferencePane rather than NSApplication. I have looked through the Qt documentation and searched the forums and see no reference on how to do this. I was ready to give up when I ran across a post which eludes to it being possible to create OSX preference panes from Qt, but unfortunately gives no clues as to how this might have been achieved.
Is it possible to create an OSX System Preferences panel using Qt? Any help or advice on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
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I am creating an app for Mac OS, but it is being built on Linux. Because of this, I am not able to use tools such as Xcode, and I am not developing in swift. Rather, the .app directory is being put together according to Apple's documentation, and the entrypoint/executable of my app is a shell script.
I need to customize the menu which appears when you right click on the app (either on the dock icon or in Finder). Is there a way to do this, without using cocoa, etc.?
The menu I believe you are referring to is called "Services".
In order to add a menu item there for your application you would create a script to enable including it there. Xcode isn't needed or required, however, you'll need to know at the very least some basic AppleScript or Javascript to accomplish what you want. (see examples from the link)
↳ Mac Automation Scripting Guide
I am developing an cocoa application for Mac and what i need is to add an item in the context menu that appears when user right-clicks on specific file and folder (i.e. when user click on file or folder by pressing ctrl key of keyboard).
I am new to Cocoa application development. I have searched in google for it and found that it can be implemented by using CFPlugIn. Does anyone know how to use CFPlugIn to implement this or any other method to add item in context menu of specific file or folder??
Thanks in advance
You can use system services for contextual menu. you should refer Services Implementation Guide. take a look at Services step out in Snow Leopard article.
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This is no longer supported in Mac OS X 10.6 and Mac OS X 10.7. Earlier versions of Mac OS X had support for contextual menu plugins, but this feature has since been removed.
What is it you're trying to accomplish in the broader sense? If you give us an idea of what your goal is, we may be able to suggest an alternate way to accomplish it.
Using System Extensions and a FinderSync extension you can accomplish this.
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Finder.html
Is it possible to download all Cocoa API documentation? I have to work offline a lot of times and sometimes a doubt blocks all my work...
Xcode does this for you automatically, unless you've disabled it ?
Your Documentation prefs pane should look something like this:
Note that in the above case there are 4 documentation sets installed and the remaining uninstalled sets can be installed by hitting the associated Get buttons. Once you have the required documentation installed then it's available via the Help => Developer Documentation menu, even when you are off-line.
As #PaulR mentions, Xcode does this automatically. Look in the Documentation preferences. If there's no button called "Get" next in the "Mac OS X 10.6 Core Library" row, then it's already downloaded and installed.
If you still don't think it's working, then check out Ingredients.app. It's an offline documentation browser. It's pretty nice. :)
I tried installing BWtoolkit in my interface builder following the instructions on the BWtoolkit site.
I downloaded the toolkit and installed it by clicking on BWToolkit.ibplugin.
I can see the BWtoolkit when i go to Interface Builder>Preferences>Plug-ins but none of the objects are appearing in the library window.
The only folders that i have are 'Cocoa Touch' and 'Custom Objects'
What have I done wrong?
BWToolkit is only for Mac OS X projects, it does not have any iPhone components. If you are seeing just Cocoa Touch and Custom Objects under the library pull down then you must be in an iPhone nib file. If you don't have any nib files open IB will default the library display to the last kind of document that was open. Try opening (or creating) and Mac OS X nib and you will see BWToolkit appear (with numerous others sections).
Occasionally I like to work completely disconnected from a network. In those cases it's really nice to have complete sets of documentation on my Mac. Xcode supports subscribing to feeds of documentation. I've subscribed to the sets that I'm interested in but there's a problem: It doesn't appear that the lists are up to date.
I'd like to subscribe to the feed for 10.6 but I can't find out what the url is. I've googled and searched through the documentation on developer.apple.com but no luck so far. Does anyone know what the feed url is for 10.6, or if there's a link that contains a listing of all of the feeds?
It's in Xcode. Xcode menu > Preferences > Documentation > Click the "i" button next to "Mac OS X 10.6 Core Library", and you'll see the feed url in the info window.
For future reference, it's: http://developer.apple.com/rss/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleSnowLeopard.atom
Further information is available in my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1658707#1658927