In my app's main menu I have a menu item that I'd like to set to the shortcut alt+"minus sign". I was able to set the key equivalent in IB, and it triggers as expected, but it's really ugly when running the app:
Even though in Interface Builder it's fine:
Do you have any idea why it's like that? Thanks!
This seems to be an OS X problem, here's a screenshot from Pixelmator:
And even Preview.app has the same problem/bug (View menu):
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Our app has some non-rich-text NSTextViews that users can enter text into. When a user enters "..." into the text view, OS X automatically replaces it with an ellipsis character, which we don't want to happen. This needs to be something we disable for all users of our app, rather than relying on them to disable it themselves.
I expected this to be an NSUserDefaults setting, like the "ApplePressAndHoldEnabled" one, but I was unable to find anything in the docs about it. I found some information about the "WebAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled" preference that sounds like it does what we need, but setting it to "NO" doesn't seem to do anything for our app.
I've also looked at NSSpellChecker, which appears to provide the "isAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled" method to check whether text replacement happens, but no way to stop it happening for an application.
How can I disable this text replacement for our app?
There are settings in the nib file for this (select the NSTextView). Unfortunately as of the latest version of OS X / Xcode, some of them seem to be broken so you may find that you have to send messages to your view from e.g. -awakeFromNib instead, e.g.
- (void)awakeFromNib
{
[myTextView setAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled:NO];
[myTextView setAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled:NO];
}
See the documentation for NSTextView for the full set of methods.
I have 2 windows in an xcode project, A and B. A is to capture information, B is to display. I built the windows in IB.
I would like to create a method to control the submit from window A to close window A, and display window B fullscreen.
I am completely new to OBJ C and Cocoa, so Please explain this or provide example code...
If I want to do this, I know I need to create a file from within IB with my A and B to add to my project to add the code, or do I simply add a cocoa file .h and .m to the project. If so, what tells IB that these files correspond to the windows I already created in IB. Once the IBAction is completed I know how to link in IB, but I am at a loss as to how to proceed.
So from what it sounds, you need to declare (in .h):
- (IBAction) closeWindowA:(id)self;
Then tell your application what closeWindowA really does (in. m):
- (IBAction) closeWindowA {
// your code goes here. Look up method(s) for closing the window - don't know them by heart
}
Then, just connect your Button or whatever is triggering the action in Interface builder using the draggable connections. Hope this helps - I also have to recommend 'Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX' by Aaron Hillegas. Helps tremendously in understanding these kinds of things.
Im sure this is something really simple I'm missing. I use makeKeyAndOrderFront: to open a window and it works the first time. When I close the window and try and open it again it quits and gives me the error EXC_BAD_ACCESS. My code is this:
- (IBAction)viewScreen:(id)sender {
[screenView makeKeyAndOrderFront:sender];
}
I can't figure out why this is happening and the debugger console isn't saying much of anything.
Thanks in advance
Why are you calling your window variable screenView? That sounds like it should refer to a view, not a window.
Check whether your window has the “Release when closed” property turned on in IB. When that property is on, the window will release itself when anything or anybody closes it. This can be handy, but if you intend to show the same window again later on, it's probably not what you want.
More generally, you can use Instruments's Zombies template to debug crashes like this.
I have snow leopard and I'm building a cpp Application with xcode.
I would like to be able to get proper code completion with xcode, and by that i mean the following:
std::string f;
f.
just when I type f. i would like to see all the relevant functions to that string class. is it possible in xcode ?
You just need to press the ESC key to get the code completion menu to show.
It may seem counterintuitive but press the ESC key after the period.
If you want the completion menu to display automatically, you can also set that in your preferences:
Code Sense -> Code Completion -> Automatically Suggest
In a windows version with tablet support, a small keyboard icon appears when an edit control gets focus. If you touch it the touch keyboard pops up.
Is there a way to disable this? It's rather inconvenient if you have your own touch keyboard.
I want to disable it for certain edit controls in code, ie. I'm not looking for a Windows setting.
Giel
Well, I guess a late answer is better than no answer, so here it comes:
You can disable the Windows onscreen-keyboard for your application.
To do so, start Regedit and navigate to the Key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TabletTIP\DisableInPlace]. There you create a new String Value, set its name to the full application Path (e.g. "C:\Progam Files\My App\MyApp.exe") and set its value to "1".
Edit: Recently I had to rethink my solution... By setting the Registry value, you disable the onscreen-keyboard for the whole application. But should you need a keyboard for some seldom used function of your program and just happend to forget including an onscreen-keyboard, you have to control the Windows TextInputPanel via SDK / API. See this link: Disabling the Input Panel Programmatically.
Use the PenInputPanel for handwriting and the TextInputPanel for an onscreen-keyboard.
For all those Delphi programmers out there: import the Type Library "Microsoft PenInputPanel" and FIX A BUG in the imported *_TLB.pas: change the parameter type of the two methods of IPenInputPanel:
function Get_AttachedEditWindow: SYSINT; safecall;
procedure Set_AttachedEditWindow(AttachedEditWindow: SYSINT); safecall;
Disable the "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service"