I have an mainUIView within which there is a customised UIImageView (named myImageView).
In the myImageView.h file, I have declared:
#property (strong, nonatomic) mainViewController *viewController;
and in the myImageView.m file, I have the following codes:
self.viewController = self.parent;
This lines raises an error indication:
Property 'parent' not found on object of type myImageView.
I thought putting the myImageView inside the mainUIView would make the default parent-and-sub relationship, but obviously it's not so.
In the main storyboard, I tried to Ctrl-drag the myImageView to the mainViewController, but no options pops up for me to select delegate.
Can anyone give me explanation of these please? I'm feeling a bit confused... Many thanks!
As your myImageView is a UIView is has no parent. Is just has a superview which again is a UIView. Basically a view doesn't know its controller. Although the controller can implement a view's delegate to get informed about events. So your AppDelegate knows your ViewController and the controller knows your ImageView. The AppDelegates window knows the view of your controller which will most likely contain the whole view hierarchy (except AlertViews, HUDViews, modal views and simmilar...).
I think what you want to do works best implementing the delegate pattern. (see Apple Docs)
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I think this image explains it all. I have a subclass of UIView that I've entered into the class field. I'm trying to connect ibOutlets between the storyboard and class implementation. It's not giving me an error, but it's not working either. Is this another xcode bug, or am I expecting this to work in a way that it won't?
Here is a solution:
1) Type an IBOutlet by hands in your header file, example:
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet ProgressBarElementView *targetProgressElement;
2) Drag the pin from the code to the element in document outline zone
I have the same problem.. I saw that if you add the custom class to the root view in the view controller, it will work.. In your case this is the initial View, listed under Bottom Layout Guide
But there must be a better way
To overcome XCode stubborness, especially when you need to hook up different enums from UIControlEvent than UIControlEventTouchUpInside, I'd rather use code directly from within the custom view class:
SWIFT
button.addTarget(self, action:#selector(ClassName.handleRegister(sender:)),
for: .touchDragExit)
OBJECTIVE-C
[self.button addTarget:self
action: #selector(buttonTouchDragExitAction:)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDragExit];
One might include such code in awakeFromNib or viewDidLoad or where it best suits.
write the outlet inside your custom UIView
#IBOutlet weak var imageView: UIImageView!
then drag it into the storyboard on the view
I'm new to Cocoa dev, so many concepts of it are not clear to me...
I'm trying to build a simple app which will use Flickr API to retrieve user photosets and show them in a NSCollectionView, by clicking them, will start to download the photos of the photo set.
I'm using Xcode 5.0.1 with latest SDK which is 10.9
After reading some articles about how to use binding to deal with NSCollectionView, I'm now facing another problem regarding handling events in NSCollectionViewItem.
Per I understanding, mouse events can be easily handled by implement
-(void) mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent
In a NSView subclass, say
#interface MyViewController : NSView {
}
And assign the view custom class to the subclass I made (MyViewController) in InterfaceBuilder.
Now, I have no problem to do as above, and the mousedown did handled as expect in most of widgets.
The problem is, I have a NSCollectionViewItem subclass as below:
#interface MyItemController : NSCollectionViewItem {
}
I'm trying to implement mousedown method there, this class was set to as File's Owner in a separated nib file. And the view will be automatically load when the NSCollectionView loaded.
Now, MyItemController cannot be as customer class in the view object in IB which is obviously because of it is not a NSView subclass but a NSCollectionViewItem subclass.
If I write a subclass of NSView and make the custom class of view object, I can get the mousedown.
However, I cannot get the representedObject and index of NSMutableArray in this approach and they are the essential information I need.
So my question is, what is the right way to deal with mouse events view of NSCollectionViewItem?
My code in GitHub here:
https://github.com/jasonlu/flickerBackupTool
Thanks!
UPDATE
I found a approach to solve this problem is by subclassing NSView and implement mousedown and use super, subviews to get and index and the array itself
- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent {
NSCollectionView *myCollectionView = (NSCollectionView *)[self superview];
NSInteger index = [[myCollectionView subviews] indexOfObject:self];
NSLog(#"collection view super view: %#",myCollectionView);
NSLog(#"collection index: %ld",index);
NSLog(#"array: %#", [[myCollectionView content] objectAtIndex:index]);
}
It seems work, but I'm not sue if this is the best practice, it looks like depends on view too much and took a long way to reach the array.
I wouldn't bet that NSCollectionView always creates all subviews (subviews which are far away from the viewing area might be delayed and/or reused). Therefore, I wouldn't rely upon subview searching.
Overload NSViewController to create an NSView so that the representedObject assigned to the NSViewController is accessible from the NSView. From there you could search the actual content for index determination.
Overloading NSCollectionView and recording the actual index during view creation would probably not work well because a deleted item probably doesNot re-create any views.
I'd like to create a custom NSTableCellView instantiated by Interface Builder. I've set my Table Cell View class to MyTableCellView, and properly created MyTableCellView : NSTableCellView .m/.h files.
However, I just can't CTRL+Drag a simple button from inside this view to MyTableCellView.h in order to create an IBOutlet.
Here is a video to show what happens: http://youtu.be/sNNbuVT-SZs.
How the view is subclassed:
How I try to CTRL+Drag a button
Also, sometimes, Interface Builder just don't allow the cell view's class to be modified. What's happening ?
I finally found a solution, that is a little weird but works as expected. Instead of connecting the NSButton to MyTableCellView header directly, I used the reversed path:
Manually create an outlet:
#property(retain, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSButton* button;
Then click the empty circle on the left, and drag it to your XIB file's button:
I have no idea why it works this way, please let me know if you know the anwser.
I'm fairly new to Xcode and Cocoa development, so please excuse me if I use the wrong terminology.
I have a window which has an NSTableView bound to a NSArrayController. The NSTableView has some predefined columns and the NSArrayController is populated with data when my window is loaded.
This all works fine, but I now need to re-use the functionality in a number of other windows.
After much reading I think and NSViewController is what I need, to provide an object that I can re-use in different windows in multiple .xib.
So what I have done is created a new NSViewController sub class in Xcode which also created a new xib for that controller.
The xib contains a custom view, where I have placed my NSTableView.
#interface KeyViewController : NSViewController
#property (weak) IBOutlet NSTableView *keyTable;
#end
The files owner class is set to the KeyViewController, and the view outlet is set to the files owner.
I then placed a ViewController object into the original window and hooked up the view to a new custom view in the window
I then set the nib name for the ViewController in its properties.
The new view never gets displayed and the view controller initWithNibName never gets called.
Am I missing something vital or missing the plot completely. Should you be able to do this just with interface builder or do I need to alloc and init the view in code?
If I do have to do it in code, whats the purpose of the ViewController object in IB and the Nib Name property for it?
Thanks..
I have Uitable view within uiview with navigation bar , I want to add button to the navigation bar to edit the contents of uitableview
any suggestion how to do that please
I think that you want to place your UITableView controller within a UINavigationController (see the UINavigationController class reference for more information).
In your UIViewController for the UITableView, you need to override the methods found under the "Configuring a Navigation Interface" section of the Apple Developer Documentation.
Within this section of methods lies - (UIBarButtonItem *)editButtonItem, which you could override to provide the button for your editing purpose. Under the hood, the UINavigationController will call this method to get the edit button for its user interface. Using this technique ensures that your app stays consistant with the user expierence iOS users have come to love.
There is solution that I tried and worked for me. The solution is
in .h file
UIBarButtonItem *edit;
and set property line as
#property (nonatomic , retain) IBOutlet UIbarButtonItem *edit;
in .m file
in your action handler of the button add
[self.tableView setEditing:TRUE];
Open the .xib file of your view controller and add a UIBarButtonItem either to left or right side of the Navigation Bar and connect the respective IBOutlet to edit button and also the selector method.
Now in the delgate of tableView add the following method
-(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
//sets the editing style for every row.
return UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete;
}
Now you can play around with the UITableViewDelegate Methods and also the above methos to get the desired functionality.
Hope it works and do communicate if it does!!