I cannot find the triggers panel in Expression Blend 4.
Tutorials everywhere show it in screenshots of the IDE:
But I cannot select that view:
How can I open that view? I need to add event and property triggers with Blend.
So annoying!
In Expression Blend 5, Triggers were replaced with Behaviors and Actions.
First select an element then open the Assets pane and double-click on the behavior you want to add to the element, or open the Properties pane and scroll to the Actions and Behaviors area to add them.
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I'm currently working on a project that utilizes an MDI Form. What I would like to achieve is that when the user hovers over one of the menu options in the MDI menu, a ToolTipText appears describing what can be found in said menu. I'm aware of the fact that in some options for VisualBasic 6, ToolTip is supported. However, I can't seem to add this to the MDI Form, or add a label control for that matter. Has anyone ever run into this problem, and if so, is there a workaround or a solution?
Please let me know if you have any additional questions or comments. Thank you in advance.
I'm not aware that any true menus on a VB6 for (even non-MDI) have a tool-tip property; hence, neither does the MDIForm when one its child forms has its menu displayed.
However, there are a few controls that can be put on the MDI parent form. The most useful of these is probably the PictureBox, into which you can then place any type of control, such as CommandButtons. It must be "docked" to either the top or bottom of the MDIForm, using the PictureBox.Align property. Controls within the PictureBox can be located any way you wish, and can have their normal ToolTip properties set.
Another MIDForm-usable control that I've had good luck with is the ToolBar control, which comes in as part of the CommonControls component. Like the PictureBox, it has a .Align property to set it to the top or bottom of the MDIForm. You can put any reasonable number of "buttons" on it, and have reasonable control over their appearance (graphics, etc.); apropos the OP's query, you can assign a ToolTip to each button. It wouldn't be difficult to have the buttons change depending upon the currently-active form, just as the MDI menus normally do.
One other alternative that can be considered (but may be quite tedious to implement) could be reading the Mouse.X and Mouse.Y properties for each MDI menu and setting the captions of a Label control (or TextBox) using the Mouse Hover event.
You'd need to find the top left and bottom right points for each MDI menu and if it is within the box, you can show your label control with the intended caption. But note that you can't just put any controls on an MDI Form except maybe PictureBoxes, Toolbars and Coolbars, etc.
So the Label or TextBox control would have to be first placed on top of a PictureBox control which can be top aligned.
I am following some tutorials with expression blend and many of them are tell me to drag a TextBlock from the toolbox. Sure enough I see it, if I long click on it it displays for additional controls.
So if I click it and drag it it should work but it opens up the other controls.
If I double click it then it places it in my design view but I want to drag and drop it.
Am I missing something here, the tutorials I am following are for Expression Blend 4 and I am using Expression Blend 4.
Thinking about it, its sounds correct that you should be able to drag and drop a control on the design surface, but it doesn't work here.
Well in Standard Expression Blend and I assume there is only one version of Expression Blend 4 you actually can't place controls via drag and drop from the toolbox onto the design surface. At least this is my experience.
If you want to place a control what you do is to choose a control via left mouse click in the toolbox which makes it the currently selected one. Then you can place it onto the design surface by defining its dimensions at the place you want to have it positioned.
AFAIK there is no function to drag a control out of the toolbox.
I'm following the instructions for creating a ScrollView in the book 'Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition'. I'm using Xcode 3.2.3.
I've already created a view, into which I've drawn shapes and lines.
The next task is to convert this to a NSScrollView, which according to the book should be a simple case of selecting the existing view and choosing Layout -> Embed Objects In -> Scroll View.
However whatever object I select, the items in the 'Embed Objects In' menu are all disabled.
How can I enable the Embed Objects In -> Scroll View item?
Got it. The important thing here is not to try selecting the view in the MainMenu.xib window. Select the view in the actual document window and make sure the resize handles are visible. A little fiddly, but once you get the right object selected, then the embed objects menu items become enabled.
I have to implement a custom toolbar for my application, where a button will be placed on the side of exit, maximize and minimize buttons.
I tried to work with the toolbar element on XCode, but it always put elements below these buttons and not on the side.
App Store application implement this feature, like you can see in this image.
One solution is to start with this open source code (https://github.com/indragiek/INAppStoreWindow) to give you the correct title bar style, and then position buttons in the titlebar.
I want to use the same sort of UI style of Xcode has right above the editor pane, as show below:
I've browsed through all the Views in Interface Builder and can't figure out what type of view this is. At this point I'm merely referring to the bar itself; not to the controls nested inside the bar, though I will be adding dropdowns in the same way as this.
What type of view should I be looking for?
TextMate uses one along the bottom of the editor too, which provides similar controls:
see:
$(DEVELOPER_ROOT)/Applications/Utilities/Accessibility Tools/Accessibility Inspector.app
just open Accessibility Inspector.app and move the cursor over the views you're interested in for details (you may need to enable accessibility options in system preferences.app).
it's also helpful to press cmd+F7 to lock onto a view and then to inspect its children.
so... 3 primary options:
1) if you want drag & drop convenience, you can simulate it with a Gradient Button
2) or you can use the button with a custom image in the button to achieve something closer
3) or just create a new view subclass and render it using a CGGradient or NSGradient