Is there a method to quickly scroll through fonts to see what looks good when working with a UITextView in Storyboard?
Like in Photoshop I can just press the down arrow to quickly cycle through fonts and see one I like. In Xcode it is a whole series of clicks to change the font and I just want to make sure I'm not missing something.
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Our designer wants a unified toolbar/titlebar (such as what Safari, XCode, et. al use) but wants labels under the icons. I have the display mode on my NSToolbar set to IconAndLabel but I still only get icons... if I do separate title and toolbars the labels show up.
I've found nothing in the docu or even via googling that suggests you're forced into icon-only view but that seems to be the case. What's the best way to get labels on these buttons? I want to avoid putting the labels in my image assets as that will complicate localization, so if that's the only choice I'd have to do it programmatically using a localized string.
As far as I know there is no way of having both the new unified toolbar and labels. Maybe you could put a bar under the toolbar that contains the labels, aligned perfectly to the images.
But do you really need the labels? Apple is trying get rid of them with the new toolbar design. Try to make your icons as self-explanatory as possible. Don't forget that there are tool tips available as well for the button titles..
After much reading and experimenting, I still cannot get a simple TextView to resize fully in the horizontal direction using Xcode 5.0.2 in Mavericks. It resizes partially as the window is resized, then stops with long lines wrapped around even though my containing NSScrollView continues to resize as expected (it has four default constraints and no horizontal scroller).
Can anyone point me to a simple code/IB+AutoLayout example, preferably just a window containing just an NSTextView dragged in from the IB template library --- one that works? The Apple TextEdit sample code is almost irrelevant for this purpose although it does resize horizontally quite well. Also, there is the clip view for which I can find little information.
Any other tips appreciated.
Thanks.
Answering my own question:
Turns out that my problem had nothing to do with AutoLayout and little to do with NSTextView. It was the textfile I was using to test my code! This file was composed of records with tab-delimited fields.
Turns out that NSTextView comes with a default NSParagraphStyle with predefined tab stops that end at character 56 whereas my test file had tabs beyond that. Therefore, my lines wrapped around at the last defined tab no matter how much I stretched the window.
After changing my search terms, I found what I needed at the following links:
Premature line wrapping in NSTextView when tabs are used
How to have unlimited tab stops in a NSTextView with disabled text wrap
Apologies for wasting bandwidth.
Not sure why such a simple thing does not work in your case, but nevertheless here's what I did in Xcode to get an NSTextView follow window resize:
Create a new project (not document based in my case but it doesn't really make a difference)
Drag a NSTextView from the palette to your window. Align all four edges with the window edges.
Open the "Add constraints" pop-up (second button from the segmented control on the bottom-right part of your IB view.
Each of the four spacing constraints should show a number equal to the distance of your text view from the container window. If you aligned them, this number should be either 0 or -1. Click the down arrow for each of them and select "Use Current Canvas Value". Do it for all four. Make sure no other constraints are selected.
Click on "Add constraints" on the bottom of the panel.
Run your project. Your textview should resize with the window.
Also, as Jay's comment mentions, make sure you do not have any "leftover" constraints in your view. You can check this either by observing Xcode's warnings, or manually by inspecting your view's constraints by going to the Size Inspector tab (4th tab on the Utilities bar).
If you need to have your textview arranged in a more complex layout, it might be worth taking a look at the AutoLayout Guide.
I'm working on some updates to my first Mac app and I'm trying to get my window's toolbar buttons to look like the toolbar buttons on EVERY standard Mac app. However, for the life of me, I can't find a button type or a barbutton type that gets me what I'm looking for. Am I missing something?
Here is an image showing several Mac apps (Preview, Finder, and Safari) with toolbars at the top which have very-slighty rounded corner buttons which also have a slight gradient on them, etc.
However, in my .xib I've got a toolbar and I've dropped every kind of button I can find on the thing and nothing looks like the standard Mac button.
The first button looks pretty close, but it's clearly not the same color. Am I missing something?
#Matt Ball is right - you can use NSSegmentedControls, even for single one-time click buttons. Just set the number of segments to 1, and set the mode to "Select None".
One of my shipping apps uses this technique, see below:
All of the controls there are NSSegmentedControl, including the single one.
Update: there are a few standard button icons which are meant for toolbars. The NSImage Class Reference has a list.
In the above screenshot, only two of the buttons are using built-in images: NSLeftFacingTriangleTemplate, and NSRightFacingTriangleTemplate. The others I drew myself.
I'm currently using the storyboard feature to position views. Due to the nature of these views, they need to be positioned with precision.
I'd like to view the Storyboard Scene/View in a magnification/zoom level greater than 100%, but it doesn't seem to be possible using the standard zoom in/out feature.
Is it possible to do this?
Note - I understand how to use the 'Size Inspector'.
It doesn't look like there is a way to do this, but there is at least one alternative that works fairly well:
Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom
Turn on the keyboard shortcut or scroll gesture
You should now be able to zoom in on any part of the operating system, including storyboards.
To make editing even easier, enable these options, some of which are found under More Options...:
Turn off Smooth images
Change Zoom Style to Picture-in-picture
Window Position: Follow mouse cursor
Cursor style: Crosshair
Enable temporary zoom
No, I am almost positive it is not possible to do this. You are stuck with 100% zoom. However, if you need great precision, you could try selecting the element you wish to move and use the arrow-keys to move the item around accurately.
However, like MacN00b, I do not use Storyboards a lot, so perhaps there is some top-super-secret setting buried somewhere.
This is one of the reasons I don't use storyboard but prefer good old fashion individual xibs. I don't think it is possible to zoom in past 100%, you may try double clicking on the background, I know that normally zooms in.
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines say:
In the Downloads window, Safari uses the free-standing NSImageNameStopProgressFreestandingTemplate image inline with a progress indicator to allow users to stop an in-progress download.
(source: apple.com)
The NSImage documentation says something similar. However, creating an NSButton using NSImageNameStopProgressFreestandingTemplate and NSShadowlessSquareBezelStyle produces something like this:
Unfortunately, this button does not match the "stop progress" buttons for the built-in Mac OS X applications:
It's much darker than the buttons in Finder and Safari, and slightly darker than the one in iCal.
It doesn't change color on rollover/hover like the buttons in Finder, Safari, and iCal.
Is there an NSButton setting I'm missing that would make the system-provided image look "right"?
Failing that, is it better to use NSImageNameStopProgressFreestandingTemplate and look "wrong," or to write a button subclass and bundle some TIFFs, which is what most applications (including Apple's) seem to be doing?
The official answer, as of Mac OS X 10.7, seems to be to use NSImageNameStopProgressFreestandingTemplate and NSInlineBezelStyle. The documentation says:
The inline bezel style contains a solid round-rect border background. It can be used to create an "unread" indicator in an outline view, or another inline button in a tableview, such as a stop progress button in a download panel.
This produces a button that's slightly darker than in Safari, but not as dark as with the other bezel styles. It does not change color on hover, but perhaps Apple is phasing that out.
The docs on [NSImage setTemplate:] suggest varying the alpha to determine how dark it is. However, I'm not sure how to do that when you're not directly drawing the image. I don't see a better way than writing your own subclass of NSButton or maybe NSButtonCell.