In a Keyboard Extension, there is a field in the info.plist "PrefersRightToLeft", which is a Bool. This (as far as I can tell) cannot be set programatically.
There is nothing in the UITextInputTraits or UIKeyInputdelegate or any other way I tried. Tried to use the setBaseWritingDirectionof the passed UITextInput.
Is there any way to have the textField change direction (RTL and LTR) from code to support the appropriate languages?
It seems that appropriate textFields are auto detecting the inserted language and adjust appropriately.
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We are all familiar with text highlighting. You hover over any "text" in any application on your Windows OS, your cursor changes into an I-Beam, and you can click and drag across the text to Highlight it. This highlighted text can be copied to the clipboard for later use.
Some applications modify the default highlighting behavior by changing color, opacity, or even shape. Some applications allow for column selection (e.g. Visual Studio "alt-click-drag" creates box like highlighting)
I have scoured the depths of the internet, but I can't seem to find a solid source of information that would explain how one would modify the behavior of text highlighting.
How would I implement column/block text selection, and modifying the appearance of the highlighted text in a compiled application.
Since applications can do this in various custom ways, there is no single solution to change how all of them style text selections.
Many will rely on the current color scheme (using GetSysColor) to determine the highlight colors. So you could modify the scheme and maybe affect the colors used for many applications.
To do this programmatically, you would use SetSysColors to change the COLOR_HIGHLIGHT and COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT values.
Other applications might rely on the current theme (using GetThemeColor). To affect those you'd have to select a different theme that has the colors (and perhaps other styling choices) that you want.
A lot of apps use their own hard-coded color schemes, so you won't be able to programmatically at all.
I'm not sure what you mean with the web application part of your question. A web application is some HTML, JS and CSS that make the browser interact with your system. Any custom selection (coloring) logic that the web application provides, has to be implemented by the browser.
Also you have to realize that "(text) selection" is an rather virtual principle. An application can just render a colored shape (like a blue rectangle) and copy something to the clipboard when it receives a WM_COPY message.
Windows provides in basic substring selection functionality for (rich) edit controls (i.e. start and end position), but for something custom like column selection, custom code is required.
Read more about this in Making a rectangular selection in a RichTextBox with Alt-Left-Mouse sweep?.
Is it possible to subclass or similar IUP controls to get modification in functionality on lower level so changes can apply to whole project (all instances of controls).
1)
For example, in my locale we don't have decimal point but decimal coma sign on numeric keyboard. It would be ideally that IUP spin accepts coma and point for decimal point.
Can that be done and how?
2)
How to get parallel navigation with keyboard (Up/Down) on IUP dialogs like we have tab/shift+tab.
3)
How to get value on input controls to be selected when get focus?
4)
How to recognize mouse doubleclick on IUP matrix cell?
Sorry for mixed questions but I need those answers now.
Thanks.
Yes, it is possible to subclass. But it is is very low level and requires to download IUP source code. The documentation already includes information about the internal SDK. It is easier to simply create a function, for example myIupLabel() that creates a IupLabel and sets some pre-defined attributes that will be used by the application.
1) As far as I know there is no control of the decimal point in IUP spin. You have to detail more what you are using. If it is the IupSpin control, if it is a IupText control with a SPIN attribute, and if you are using the MASK attribute of a IupText. And Yes, it is possible so solve that problem, but how depends on these details.
2) This is already done for toggles and buttons.
3) You mean IupText controls? Use the GETFOCUS_CB callback and set the SELECTION attribute inside the callback.
4) The double click is used for editing. The EDITION_CB is called when a double click occur. But there is another way. You can set the BUTTON_CB callback since the IupMatrix inhertis from IupCanvas, but you will have to save the previous one and call it from inside yours.
I'm building an application to generate an array of colors based on a color chosen by the user.
The default on Mac OS X for color selection is to open a NSColorPanel containing multiple NSColorPickers. But, as the color selection process is the main interaction the user will have with the app, it'd be better to avoid the extra clicks and panel-popping in favor of a more straightforward way.
So, is there any way to add a NSColorPicker object to a window?
I know this is an older question, but check out NSColorWell. From the docs:
NSColorWell is an NSControl for selecting and displaying a single color value.
Interresting Question.
I strongly doubt it (but would love to be proven wrong). NSColorPickers are not NSControls (nor NSCells) so there's no clean wrapper to insert into a window.
Even if you were to instanciate an NSColorPanel and get a reference to its contentView and copy it (with all that defines the color picking controls) to your own window... there's no obvious way of obtaining the color value. NSColorPickers are plug-ins so you can't forsee the controls of a colorPicker.
The only other way I can see (and that's a stretch) would be to manually load the NSColorPickers plug-ins directly. I don't know how successfull this would be.
File a bug report and request the feature?
I have a box that I want to take a password of only numbers (like an ATM-card PIN), how is the best way to do that?
Requirements:
Password (with the hidden numbers)
Typing digits as the default (only?) keyboard
What I've tried:
I thought that InputScopes would be the way to go, but I can't set the input scope on a password box. I even tried putting the password InputScope on a normal TextBox, but that didn't mask the appearance of the characters in the text box. Suggestions?
Short version - you don't out-of-the-box as far as I know.
You're absolutely right that PasswordBox don't support InputScope. I would have thought that it inherited from TextBox or a common ancestor for textual input to get InputScope, but it inherits directly from Control. And since it is a sealed class you cannot inherit it and change it behaviour either. I don't think you can achieve it using ControlTemplate either.
So your best bet will probably be to create your own control mimicking the behaviour of PasswordBox, including the second long delay before the shown character becomes the hidden character.
I'm using the Cocoa Accessibility API to try and modify the value of a text field (AXTextField) in another application, but I've run into a problem: my code correctly identifies and modifies the contents of the text field in question, and the text of the field visibly changes, but the changes aren't registered by the program I'm trying to control. Is there a way to do this in with the API without having to generate keyboard events?
Sample code:
AXUIElementCopyElementAtPosition(appRef,
clickPoint.x,
clickPoint.y,
&boxRef);
NSString *valueToSet = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%f",amount];
AXUIElementSetAttributeValue(boxRef,kAXValueAttribute,valueToSet);
And the text field changes to the value specified in "amount" but the other program doesn't recognize the change - I have to go type the number in myself to get it to pick up the change (I can tell the difference, because the program responds when a new value is typed in the box). Can anyone point me in the right direction?
For posterity: Informed sources tell me that this is actually a bug in the application I'm trying to control. You can tell the difference by using UI Browser (http://prefabsoftware.com/uibrowser/) to try and set the value of the textfield; if UI Browser can't make the change stick, then the matter is out of your control.
Try telling the text field:
perform action "AXConfirm"
This is Applescript, but whatever the Cocoa equivalent is, it may make the change stick even if UI Browser can not (I've used it before).