Is there a bevel style that can replicate NSToolbar style of buttons that are used, for instance, in the Safari's preferences window to switch between different panes?
I need to replicate NSToolbar in an NSView using NSButtons. I understand that I should probably be using NSTabView, but I'd like to implement the look of xcode's left pane. Any tips here would be appreciated greatly.
There's nothing built-in, you'd have to create the images yourself. However, replicating the behaviour is straightforward.
You could simply use a single-row NSMatrix of NSButton objects. Just give the buttons an image and an alternate image (for the highlighted state) and set the matrix mode to NSRadioModeMatrix.
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My application has a NSTableView configured as a SourceList.
Under the NSTableView are two NSButton two add/remove items in the table.
The table and the buttons are embedded in a NSVisualEffectView (.behindWindow mode).
The result is great and I can see the background through the table and the buttons, BUT, when the app is in background (I give the focus to another app), the tableview and the buttons become black, and the view is not redrawn, as shown in the picture below (taken with an iPhone, because a screenshot does not show the bug!):
And here is the IB structure of the views:
The container view (CustomView) is layer-backed.
Any lead to solve this problem? Thanks in advance !
The problem was that I was trying to have a NSOutlineView translucent (Behind-window blending), but under a TabView.
Apple UI guidelines (here) state the following:
Use an opaque background when a window contains more than one sidebar, and when using a sidebar in a panel or preferences window. All other times, use a translucent background.
Because of the TabView, I was clearly against this rule which had technical side effects (which led to this post :-)).
--> making the NSOutlineView opaque (not as a SourceList) solved the problem.
Are any of your views opaque and implement drawRect:?
I've seen issues like this when a view implements drawRect: but doesn't completely fill the passed-in rect (or all of the rects returned from getRectsBeingDrawn:count:).
Several places in OS X (in this example, the Users & Groups pane in System Preferences) have circular image views that allow the user to either drag in an image, like in an editable NSImageView but also allow them to click to show a popover that allows various other choices of image sources.
I have checked the ImageKit framework, but the only thing I found similar is the image taking sheet.
How can I make use of this feature in my own Cocoa applications? I'd imagine it is implemented in some standard frameworkâbut any pointers on implementing something like this would be quite appreciated.
You will have to go down the custom control root as this is not available as a stand alone control.
However you have all the prerequisites.
The circular image view
There a several ways to implement this. You could try using a standard Cocoa button and customise as needed. Although it might just be easier to build from scratch by subclassing NSView. This was you can avoid all the NSCell stuff. I would do the latter.
The popover
Roll your own master-details type view controller to be displayed as the popover's content. In the left have a NSTableView (the master), the right have a NSCollectionView (the details). Below the collection view add some buttons.
i need to have a toolbar similar to this one :
I tried with a NSSegmentedControl with the NSSegmentStyleSmallSquare style but it doesn't look like the Xcode toolbar.
Also, i need to have a split view like in XCode with a very thin border (of one pixel ?) but the NSSplitView hasn't this style (even with NSSplitViewDividerStyleThin).
Is there a way to achieve this in Interface Builder or with another way (override drawRect ?) ?
Thank you
Not really. I mean you could probably use a few UIButtons with images and additional UIImageViews for the gradient background, but considering that this would be completely static (no easy way to rearrange the tabs, add a new tab, etc) I would really recommend writing your own tab control for that.
OS X Finder has this nice feature to colour-label files. I'm thinking of using a similar feature in my app (that is: use this in an NSTableView/NSOutlineView, not looking to highlight items in Finder from my app). Is this ability somehow available through any of the default user interface classes or would it require a custom implementation?
I have experimented with setting NSTextFieldBezelStyle to NSTextFieldRoundedBezel but this seems to kill the ability to draw a background colour and also defaults to a grey border.
Have a look at the NSURL NSURLLabelColorKey, which is one of the attributes you can set for a URL. You can set these values with setResourceValues:error:
After Edit: Sorry, I misinterpreted the question. I think the easiest way is to use a view based table and put a borderless label inside an NSBox of the custom type. You can give the box rounded corners and a background color with no border, and that looks just like the finder label.
Download the Apple SourceView sample app. It's an NSOutlineView that uses a custom NSTextFieldCell for the drawing; tweak that to draw your custom colors.
I have a Cocoa app in which one of my NSOpenGLViews can go into full screen mode (I do this with the method enterFullScreenMode:withOptions:). I would like to create a little widget that when you mouse over it, a toolbar pops up with some different controls. I am wondering what would be the best way to implement this widget? At first I thought about using a panel but I don't think you can bring up any windows when in full screen mode. Also, it seems that you can't add a subview to an NSOpenGLView? Are these two assumptions correct? What else could I use to accomplish this?
I would add a subview to the openglview's superview.
You can't add any subview to NSOpenGLView.
You can use glViewport to simulate subviews.