Is there any way to get back Object groups in library of Xcode 5 just like it was in Xcode 4.
I don’t think so. However, you can click the little grid/list button at the bottom left to show the library as a grid. If you can recognize the icons, and don’t need the text labels, it makes it much quicker to scroll through the list. (This does not work well for snippets, because they all have the same icon.)
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What type of control is this? Some sort of Segment control but without borders? It works like a menu in that you can mouse down and drag... it will highlight as you drag and pick the one you release on.
How can I do something similar?
The big difference I need is to allow multiple selection which will show different sets of details in the area below it. I can do this with a series of NSButtons, but don't get the drag-over "menu" effect.
Ideas?
In the past, I have come across two example of implementation of Xcode-like inspector views:
https://github.com/malcommac/DMTabBar
https://github.com/smic/InspectorTabBar
Some time has passed, so they seem to me more the style of Xcode 4, but they should be ready to adapt to the new appearance.
I need to implement a threaded view of sorts in an old VB6 app. It should look similar to this:
So, it's like a TreeView of sorts but there are buttons on the right (for each row) that could be pressed. The view does not need to collapse - it always stays in the expanded mode. The users should be able to respond to each node (via the comment button on the far right). And, of course, users should be able to scroll through the entries.
What are some of the ways I could implement this? I am open to 3rd party controls, paid or not.
VSFlexGrid has an outline mode. You can set the indent per row via the RowOutlineLevel property. It supports word wrap, images, etc within its cells/columns so you should be able to get pretty close to what you want. It also supports owner-drawn which lets you fully customize the cell painting (for example, to get those rounded corners).
I'm sure there are other controls out there as well...
I'm experimenting with creating a metro style app with Visual Studio 2012, I am not the most experienced designer but one thing with my applications is confusing me.
I have been working with 'basic pages' instead of blank ones for the different pages in my application for design consistency, however it seems that these 'basic pages' have a strange behaviour. Every item I place on the page (buttons, text boxes, etc) will all slide in one by one when the page opens. For example if I run the application and navigate to a page with 10 buttons, it will do a brief animation where each button will slide in from the right side to the left side. When dealing with a large number of items on one page this can take a lot of time as each item slides in seperatley.
Looking at the properties for each item I have been able to change the direction it slides in while loading the page by changing the flow direction. Also with a bit of research I am thinking it could potentially be due to either the metro style 'enterPage' or 'enterContent' animations, though I can not be certain.
I have tried to experiment and figure this out, and search to find out what causes this so I can modify it (Ideally I would like to just group items together to slide in with each other) however it's kind of a difficult thing to search with vague words, so I'm asking here.
What is causing this and how might I go about modifying it?
EnterPage shouldn't be sequencing the animations. They do offset some of the animations of a number of elements, but it shouldn't be each one sequentially.
Are you using WinJS navigation?
Well after a bit of experimentation I figured out that putting all my page content inside a grid made them all come in at once like I wanted. I probably should have tried that earlier but everything was already inside an outer grid for the page, so I thought that woulda handled it.
I don't quite understand it fully, but that works for now.
In Xcode 3 I used the menu at the top of my editing window to navigate between methods (and other things), which was useful because it was alphabetized. In XCode 4 (the jump bar, I think it's called) is no longer alphabetized.
I didn't see a preference to make it so... is there one?
I suppose the thinking is that you don't need it, since there is a class navigator at the left (left for me, anyway) that shows the methods alphabetized.
Except that only classes in my Classes group show up here. I have lots of classes in a dozen or so other groups, and I don't want to just toss everything into one group.
Any way to get classes in my other groups to show up?
I did notice that when I show ALL classes, they do show up under NSObject, but that navigator is much too cluttered to be useful.
The answer, from the Jump Bar help page:
"Tip: Hold down the Command key when selecting a level in the path menu to view its items alphabetically."
Drop-down lists, menus and combo boxes are all very common user interface elements. Users are accustomed to seeing these elements in native applications and sometimes web apps, but there are a few problems with them.
You have to aim the mouse. Some menus collapse when you mouse out, and some have submenus that you have to aim at to expand.
You can't see the options without aiming the mouse first.
These are the main things that trouble me, maybe other people notice other issues as well. I normally don't use drop-down menus at all if I can help it.
The problem is that I sometimes want to present a long list of options in limited space. Issue 2 is a sacrifice I'm willing to make, but I'm wanting to know if anyone has any tricks to make these drop menus easier to use. Maybe someone has invented a new style of list control.
I'm sure that if these types of controls annoy me, then they annoy users of my site more.
Hmm..one more thing which annoys me about the dropdown list is the inability to control their width as it expands with the text (or is their something which I am unaware of ?).
For an alternate, I think about a little popup which initially displays a list of available options in form of Alphabetic index and when the user clicks on an alphabet link, it displays the relevant options to select from. This will reduce the options to select from.
On the same terms, we can use ajax to build the options on the fly as user types in.
You could try something like Mac OS/X has for its taskbar, similar to the selection bar in YouTube. I think the common term is a bubble bar where small images animate larger as the mouse rolls over them, but shrink back down to such a size that all items are visible when the mouse is not over the control.
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width='20px' will keep the collapsed drop down at a width of 20px. Problem is, Inernet Explorer shows the expanded item with this width also, while all other browsers i met so far will show you the full menu.