How do I go about adding/removing the window border after it has been created? the window was already designed in interface builder and I would prefer to avoid writing the window purely in code as I am still a long ways before i can say i am experienced with objective-c/cocoa.
Example Program:
a single window with the border initially, a button on it. If you click the button once it makes the boarder disappear and if you click it again then the boarder reappears.
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As far as I can tell, you can't. You might be able to fake it by taking the content view out of one window and making it be the content view of another window.
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Is there a way, after selection of a color, to programmatically hide the color picker of the TComboColorBox? I've searched on the web and Embarcadero community but couldn't find a way to do this.
The answer is no, there is no designed way to hide (collapse) the popup programmatically. And you did not explain why you think it would be necessary to have.
Keep in mind that there are 4 subcontrols, that the user may want to use:
a THueTrackBar,
an alpha channel trackbar,
a color quad, and
a hex color value edit box.
An automatic collapse of the popup would be just annoying.
The user can at any time decide to close the popup simply by clicking on the constantly visible bar.
With reference to your comment:
After your answer, I realized that I must implement a color picker component that shows a rect containing a TComboColorBox and a TButton as childs. Clicking the child button, in turn, hides the container rect itself.
I have told you twice that the user can close the popup part of the TComboColorBox simply by clicking on the component (the base part of it).
In fact, the user can click anywhere outside of the popup window in order to close the popup window. The popup is closed immediately when the focus moves away from it.
In my opinion there's no need for a special "Close" button.
I am trying to build a UI with a main window that displays some content, and sometimes slides-in a modal view from the right edge of the window. Interaction with the main content must be blocked while the modal is open; however, clicking the main content should close the modal. Here's a mockup:
Please note the user should see only one window. That is, the modal should be nested inside the main window.
I have very little experience with AppKit and Cocoa in general. My approach so far has been to structure my UI like this:
Root region (NSView)
-> MainRegion (NSView)
-> ModalRegion (NSView; toggle hidden and animate the left edge)
and then add subviews to MainRegion and ModalRegion to display content. The problem is that ModalRegion doesn't absorb input events.
What's the AppKit way to build this kind of UI? I mainly just need to know about how the view hierarchy should be shaped and how to block/absorb input events. I think I can figure out the animations myself. Also, the app targets macOS 10.8+, but answers for more recent versions would be helpful, as well.
It’s not really macOS like UI but there are two approaches you could use. In both cases you would use a transparent view to cover the main window and to dismiss the modal view in case of a mouse click. If you need a shadow overlapping the main window as shown in your mockup you will need to use a window attached to the main window as a child window. If this is not the case it would be enough to work with a view which is attached to the contentView of the main window.
All the best.
I am in the process of creating a small image editor.
What I aim, is to create a window with transparent titlebar, but not what contains inside the window.
I have check HUD Window, but it's really is a panel, not a window. And I am missing the regular close,maximize and minimize button.
Is there anyway to create such window?
Or can we modify HUD to hold regular close,max and min button?
Thanks so much in advance!
Eko
Use a standard borderless window approach and provide a content view that draws something. Even if the content view's bounds rect is just filled with [NSColor whiteColor].
Update: Re-reading, I see you seem to be asking for just a transparent title bare but still with the window controls. See this StackOverflow question for an approach at customizing a window's title bar. Careful, though - I'm not sure this would be accepted into the App Store. Best to have a backup plan in case it's not.
Here is what I found that match to what I want : window trasparency
The trick is making the main window transparent, but not the content by creating a special view for this.
I've been struggling for weeks trying to crack this nut so I'm not sure if it's impossible, or if it's my lack of coding chops... or both. I'm not a programmer and I'm a newbie to Dojo Toolkit.
I have a site using the BorderContainer layout. I'm trying to create an effect where I can use a button to open and close a dropdown type box that will contain controls. I need this dropdown to be hidden on page load, and then open when you click the button.
My problem is that when I open the dropdown, it pushes the content pane below it off the bottom of the browser window. I need the lower ContentPane to stay fit within the remaining space of the browser window when the dropdown opens. Additionally, I want the dropdown to sit outside of the scrollable container for the content below it, which is why I have it set up to sit outside a nested BorderContainer below it.
I've created a simplified version of the code to demonstrate my challenge (see link below). If you load the page you can see the center ContentPane scrolls the content. But, if you then click on the button, a dropdown div expands above the content. Then when you scroll, you'll notice that you can't see the full pane because it's in no-man's-land below the bottom of the browser window. I assume that because the div is set to display:none on load, it's size is not accounted for on page load. Then, when you open it by pressing the button, it's size is additive and the pane below doesn't know how to resize or account for the new element.
I've tried using the visibility attribute, but that leaves a gap for the div when it's still closed. I've tinkered with some code that controls the height that shows promise, but each of my dropdown boxes will be different sizes so I'd prefer that the height be set to "auto" rather than a specified pixel size.
Does anyone have any idea how I can accomplish this so that the lower pane will fit in the space without pushing off the screen?
Here's a sample of the page:
http://equium.com/scaffold.html
(I had some problems trying to insert the full HTML page here as a code sample so if that's a preferable way to handle it, and someone can let me know the best way to embed all of that code, I'd appreciate it.)
Thanks is advance, I'd really apprecaite anyone's feedback.
You might want to take a look at dojox.layout.ExpandoPane (though be warned I think it has only worked properly for top and left regions for a while).
Also, I'd suggest simplifying/altering your layout a bit. See example here:
http://jsfiddle.net/taFzv/
(It'd probably need some tweaking to get exactly what you want.)
The real issue you're having is probably that the BorderContainer has no idea that parts of the view resized. ExpandoPane takes care of that by telling the BorderContainer to re-layout after its animation completes.
It works under IE8.0. When dropdown box open, just keep pressing mouse from page and drag to bottom, you could see the content was pushed to out of page. It looks the browser could not detect it and could not add it to "scroll bar" account.
I would suggest taking out all BorderContainers except your top level one, the one with mainPage as the id.
Place your {stuff here} div into the mainPage BorderContainer, after the ContentPane with the Close/Open button. Make sure you make it dojotype dijit.layout.ContentPane, set up layoutpriority, and set region to top. Set the height to 0/x when clicking the Open/Close button, instead of setting display.
Try your page again. If that doesn't fix it, you probably need, a call to layout, resize, or both to indicate to the BorderContainer that it needs to evaluate all its children and size the "center" pane properly. Something like dijit.byId("mainPage").layout(); Do this any time someone presses the Close/Open button, after you have changed the height of any BorderContainer children.
Maybe the dijit.form.DropDownButton would fit your needs. When click the button a tooltip is displayed that can be filled with any content you want. Just as you specified, the dropdown tooltip is only displayed when you click the button, and it doesn't mess with the underlying layout at all. The tooltip sits "on top" of the page.
I am making an image picker that will display an n by n grid of selectable button when the picker is popped up. This grid of buttons will be contained within an NSWindow but I would like for the window to be close automatically if the user clicks off the screen. Is there a flag that can be set so that when the window looses focus it will be closed automatically?
There are two notifications that you may be interested in: NSWindowDidResignKeyNotification and NSWindowDidResignMainNotification. You can simply register for the one you're interested in in awakeFromNib (or windowDidLoad if you have a custom controller) and then close or hide the window as appropriate when you receive the notifications.
I won't delve too much into whether or not this is a good idea from UI standpoint. But, it might be a better idea to have either an overlay view or a panel for the functionality you describe.
You might check out NSPanel. It's an NSWindow subclass that will hide itself when the app is in the background, and that behavior sounds very similar to what you are looking for.