I'm trying to run my air app on Mac with the accessibility turned on. It seems like, it only detects the menu bar and the name on top. Going through any of the input text field or buttons doesn't seem to work. I'm using the VO+arrow key to go through the elements but it doesn't seem to goto the application's element. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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I'm building an OSX app using swift. I'm trying to reveal the app whenever hotkeys are pressed and hide it when the app loses focus. Kind of like how Spotlight Search (or Alfred) reveals whenever you hit Command + Space. How do I accomplish this behavior?
Working on porting a Windows game to Mac using SDL2, and I noticed on the Mac that the menu bar for the game includes a View menu with an item Toggle Full Screen. I'm assuming SDL put it there automatically, as I didn't request it anywhere in my code. However, since the game can run in a window or full screen (and the window is resizable), I figure I should make this menu item actually work somehow.
I know practically nothing about Mac OSX coding (I just followed a tutorial to get my SDL app to build on the Mac side in XCode), and I can't find anything in the SDL documentation about how to respond to, activate, or remove this menu item (or other ones that are greyed out, like the Minimize option in the Window menu). Best I could find online is a reference to it being added in a commit to the SDL code base, but nothing in the commit message about how one is supposed to hook it up to their application code.
So, how do I activate and respond to this menu item (and any other menu items that only show up in OSX builds for that matter, like Minimize and About)? And is it something I can hook up in a cross-platform way via SDL itself, or did SDL add something that I have to deal with using platform-specific OSX code?
I need to change some aspect of the title bar in a Cocoa App on Mavericks. I don't own the App or have access to the source. The change could be to change the title text, or the color of the bar. I want the change to apply only to this 1 app.
Is this possible?
thanks,
-joe
Go to your Applications folder and highlight the application you wish to change. Then press enter and you'll see it "blinking" and highlighted. Just type what you want to name it to and you're all set. Also you might want to ask here next time. https://apple.stackexchange.com/
Apple's own apps such as Reminders show Badge count even if they are not running or after quitting them
Other apps (some even with Helper apps) show badge when they are running, but it disappears as soon as you quit the application
is there a way, user side, or programming side, we can do to always show this badge, even when the app is not running?
I searched a lot in Google, didn't find anything about "always" showing this badge, maybe "badge count" is the wrong keyword
Yes, Create dock Tile Plug-in.
Starting in OS X v10.6, you can customize an application’s Dock tile
icon and menu when the application is not running.
When your application needs to customize the Dock tile, it manipulates the NSDockTile object that was provided to the initial call to the setDockTile: method.
To dynamically change the application's Dock icon, you can draw a Dock icon using a custom view. See Using a Custom View to Draw a Dock Icon.
To add text to a Dock icon, you can apply a badge label. See Changing the Text of a Badge Label.
I'm building an Adobe AIR 2.5 app that I have working the way I want in Windows in that you can minimize it to the system tray and no icon shows up in the tab order or task bar. What I'm wondering is, can you replicate this in OS X? I want there to be a menu bar extra item to show in the upper right hand corner and also be able to hide it from the Dock when running. I haven't been able find any resources and any tips would be greatly appreciated.
I do not think what you want is possible.
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=2875209
Maybe in AIR 3.0. We'll see.