I have subclassed NSButton and created a class of my own, in which I have added the code to show up hand cursor when mouse pointer comes over the button. It's working for buttons that were added in normal views. But when I used the same class for a button inside a model sheet, cursor is not showing up. What might be the reason? Any idea!
This is the code I have added in NSButton subclass
- (void)resetCursorRects {
/*
* change cursor type to a poiting finger when it gets into HyperLink frame.
*/
[super resetCursorRects];
[self addCursorRect:[self bounds] cursor:[NSCursor pointingHandCursor]];
}
In Interface Builder, make sure your sheet's Window/Panel has Title Bar checked.
Since it's a sheet the title bar won't actually be visible, but for some reason cursor tracking seems to be disabled when this property is off.
Instand of Subclassing create a Category of NSButton. and override the
resetCursorRects method (same as the above).
#import the new Category to your controller and try.
if you not familiar with Category try this out.
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I am writing a Cocoa app and do not want it focus on mouse click it, but I found no way to implement yet. Any one can give me suggestions ?
I've finally found a solution!
Create a subclass of NSView, and reimplement the following methods:
-(BOOL) shouldDelayWindowOrderingForEvent:(NSEvent *)theEvent
{
return YES;
}
-(void) mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent
{
[NSApp preventWindowOrdering];
}
and set the contentView property of the created NSWindow, and set the window style mask to NSBorderlessWindowMask , and it works.
There is method(s) you may override in your subclass with returning NO
-(BOOL)acceptsFirstResponder
-(BOOL)becomeFirstResponder
Select the Table View in Interface Builder. There is a "Focus Ring" Attribute, change it to "None".
I set all these attributes in Scroll View, Clip View, and Table View.
Hope it help.
It's easy enough to drag and drop bar button items onto a view controller's navigation bar in a storyboard in Interface Builder. In this way, you can set the leftBarButtonItem and rightBarButtonItem outlets of the view controller's navigation item. But there's also a backBarButtonItem outlet, and it's not obvious at all how to set it. How can I set a custom back bar button item using Interface Builder?
Select the view controller whose navigation items you want to change. The black bar displaying the identity of the view controller changes to an iconified tray of its referenced objects.
Drag and drop a bar button item from the object library onto the tray.
Right-click on the view controller's navigation item in the main object tray on the left-hand side. Wire up the newly added button as the navigation item's backBarButtonItem outlet.
Select the bar button and configure it in any way you choose with the Attributes Inspector.
As #wcochran noted above, when working with viewControllers pushed onto a navigationController's stack, the backBarButtonItem outlet is already wired and can't be changed. Furthermore, selecting the child VC's navigationItem and changing the Back Button text in IB doesn't do what you would expect.
Now you might think that replacing the child VC's backBarButtonItem would solve the problem, but it doesn't. Confusingly, if you want to set the title of the back button of a child VC, you have to set the back button title of its parent (!), like so:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated // in the parent VC!
{
UIBarButtonItem *backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backButton;
}
This won't do anything on the parent VC. In fact, if the parent is the navigationController's RootViewController, there won't be a back button at all. But the child will inherit (or pick up) the back button you've created.
This only applies to the immediate child VC, so if you want to maintain the label down through the navigationController's stack you need to set it on each parent.
Thanks to #wiliz in #iphonedev for explaining this to me.
As #AdamBlock noted above, you have to set things right in the parent VC.
He shows how to do this programmatically. It is also possible to do this in interface builder.
Select the parent VC
Select the navigation Item
Open the Attributes inspector
Set the title for the Back Button.
In Interface Builder, you can change the Navigation Item back button's title.
Programmatically, you can set a custom back button in your view controller's viewDidLoad method. In this example we set the button's image to an image named "customImage.png":
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIBarButtonItem *backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Custom" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:nil];
// Set custom image here
backButton.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"customImage.png"];
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backButton;
}
As the title suggest, I've enabled right clicks for my tableview with customized rows. Anywhere there is an NSTextField, it blocks the right click.
is there a userInteractionEnabled equivalent for cocoa like on the iphone?
I though I probably needed to subclass everything in my NSTableCellView subclass, but I just needed to override -(NSView*)hitTest:(NSPoint)aPoint method in my NSTableCellView subclass to return self.
I'm able to right click on text fields within my custom view based table view cell. Here is how I configure it:
NSTextField *tf = [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:NSZeroRect];
self.textField = tf;
self.imageView.autoresizingMask=NSViewWidthSizable;
self.textField.editable=NO;
self.textField.selectable=NO;
self.textField.drawsBackground=NO;
self.textField.bordered=NO;
self.textField.bezeled=NO;
self.textField.target=self;
self.textField.action=#selector(textDidEndEditing:);
[self.textField.cell setLineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByTruncatingMiddle];
Also, make sure you are setting the -menu property of NSTableView and not the cell view to enable to menu. (I don't know if that will make a difference to your issue but it is how I do right clicking in a table view.)
I would like to figure out how to perform drag and drop from strings in a table view onto a collection view. I know there are delegate methods for collectionView drag and drop but can't find any examples of how to implement them. I have my collection view set up, it seems to be working correctly but don't know how to finish.
Any help is appreciated.
Update: The collection view setup I am working with has 3 NSTextFields and 2 check boxes for each collection item. There is also a tableView in the same view. The table view is passed an a MutableArray of strings. I want to be able to drag string values from the table view rows into the appropriate textFields in the collection view item.
This is different from the typical way drag and drop is used for collection views.
I am going to answer my own question because I spent quite a bit of time today trying to figure this out, Many people struggle with this procedure and mostly because I feel bad I keep asking the Stack community all these collection view questions all week:
I discovered the default behavior of the NSTextField actually allows a drop if it is in focus. The problem is that I need the appropriate NSTextField to auto focus on mouse enetered event. So as things turned out, I did not even need the NSCollectionView drag and drop delegates. I needed the NSTableView drag delegates and I needed to subclass the NSTextField and implement mouse event (drop) delegates in it.
so my class for the original collectionViewItem look like this:
//someClass.h
#interface SomeClass : NSObject{
IBOutlet NSTextField *field1_;
IBOutlet NSTextField *field2_;
IBOutlet NSTextField *field3_;
IBOutlet NSButton *chkBox1_;
IBOutlet NSButton *chkBox2_;
}
#porperty(readwrite, copy) NSTextField *filed1_;
properties are made for all 5 outlets for binding purposes. If you follow the tutorial on the Mac OSX Dev Library ; Collection View Programming Guide, it walks you through the process of setting up a collection View but it uses bindings.
So now the key is to set up a textField sub class
//MyNSTextField.h
#import
#interface MyNSTextField : NSTextField{
//mouse positioning
unsigned long last_;
}
//MyNSTextField.m
#import "MtTextField.h"
#implementation
-(void)dealloc{
[super dealloc];
}
-(void)awakeFromNib{
//register for dragged types
//any other nib stuff
}
//three required mouse events
-(unsigned long)draggingEntered:(id<NSDraggingInfo>)sender{
//this forces the textfield to focus before drop
[self.window makeFirstResponder: self];
NSPasebord *pBoard;
self->last_ = DragOperationNone;
pBoard = [sender draggingPastboard];
return self->last_;
}
-(unsigned long)draggingUpdated:(id<NSDraggingInfo>)sender{
return self->last_;
}
-(void)draggingExited:sender{
if([sender draggingSource] != self){
self->last = NSDragOperationNone;
}
}
}// end class
now just go back to the original class and change the name of your textField outlets from NSTextField to MyNSTextField and in the collection view, select each textfield and assign it the new class name in the inspector and as long as you had your tableview drag delegates set up, or if your are dragging from some other source, make sure you have the appropriate dragging source delegates set and it should work.
I am really new to iPhone development and I need help setting up my views.
I have a view that is named FirstViewController.xib and a controller class for this view.
In my MainWindox.xib I have setup a root controller with a moveToNextView function that is connected to the options bar button item.
So when I click on this item the current view switches to the first view and I am able to swticht back. That works fine so far.
The navigation bar at the top of the screen from the MainWindow.xib is displayed in the first view, too. But when I open FirstViewController.xib there isn't any navigation bar defined (but on build&run it is displayed).
This is a problem for me because I want to add a save bar item to the first view. How do I solve that?
Assuming you have a UIViewController (or UIViewController subclass) that is a child of a UINavigationController. Note, I'm using storyboards so your results may vary when using xibs.
If you do not see a UINavigationBar on the interface, try manually changing the simulated metrics.
Drag a Navigation Item onto the view (anywhere). You should now have a place to enter the title in the interface builder.
Now you can drag Bar Button Items onto the nav bar.
You have to do it from code. Add to your FirstViewController class viewDidLoad method:
UIBarButtonItem *anotherButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Save" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:self action:#selector(doSave:)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = anotherButton;
[anotherButton release];
Just drag a bar button item onto your nav bar in Interface Builder. Xcode automatically wires it up then you can use it like anything else...