I'm getting started with Mac apps development and trying to figure out some things.
I want to create an app with tabs like Selectable Toolbar from BWToolkit (I try it but still has lots of bugs). And when I click one of its buttons, I want to display a different view.
What are the classes that I need to use?
The Interface Builder toolbar component can have such behavior?
Is there any example on how to switch between views?
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I dont really know the terminology for this, but how do you add actions and popover windows in and XIB file? Example: http://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzaQ6L3vezqkYzVjVmU1dUtrRHM
I would also like it to be able to display different "pages" on the same window based on buttons. Example: image 1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzaQ6L3vezqkMkV6YW03cTNaSkU
image 2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzaQ6L3vezqkdTRSTHdVRWNxZWc
On this app, I really like the UI. Hopefully I can make my app look simmalar.
I like the new tab interface displayed in the Lion “About This Mac” window. It's not gorgeous, but I think it's extremely useful in presenting information where icons would most probably fail to do a good job.
Question is: is that UI available from standard Cocoa components? I.e., can something similar to it be built with Xcode, without resorting to custom classes with custom drawing code?
Isn't that just a toolbar without images?
I'm currently working on my first iOS application to run on the iPad, and I've come across a problem. I have been asked to implement menu's similar to the ones in the default applications such as when you click on the "Calendars" button in the top left of the calendars app.
Only issue is, I cant seem to find a standard UI object that looks like these, with the arrow connecting the menu to the button etc. Is this a standard UI component that I should be able to use, or will I have to imitate them by creating a custom object?
Thanks for any help.
That is a UIPopoverController. There isn't an Interface Builder control for this. You need to create one programmatically:
UIPopoverController *popover = [[UIPopoverController alloc]initWithContentViewController:someTableViewController];
See the documentation for more information and sample projects, specifically ToolbarSearch:
Following up on this question: Kiosk Applications - OS X programming - Multiple monitors
I'm an iPhone programmer just starting out with OS X programming, and I'd like to know how I can present multiple views sequentially.
What I basically need to do is - Have a welcome screen with a button called "Click here to continue". Once the user clicks that button, it needs to completely replace the view with another view presenting a table view of options that the user can choose from.
I actually need to create a couple more screens, but any help on how to get this basic setup can help me get started. The problem I'm having is almost all the mac application source code available on Apple's website seems to be oriented towards single window applications popping up multiple windows for any additional tasks.
Thanks,
Teja
I enjoyed using M3NavigationView from Martin Pilkington http://www.mcubedsw.com/dev
Basically it pushes and pops NSViewControllers on a stack and allows you to animate between them. I am doing this for a quick setup wizard on an app I am working on.
Make a tabless tab view, and put each of your views into one of the tab view items. In Interface Builder, each tab view item will have a view automatically, so you just need to put all of the subviews for that tab into that view.
You can then switch tabs from code—e.g., in response to the “Next” button.
I'm trying to add a collapsible panel to a panel I added in the Interface Builder, similar to the one found in Office 2008 and XCode itself.
This is the collapsible panel for those that don't know it:
OS X collapsible panel http://grab.by/3Hqv
Any idea how I can add this to my project? Google hasn't been of much help.
This is most often referred to as a "disclosure view" or "disclosure panel" and usually has to come with an intelligent container view (that grows/shrinks/scrolls correctly with multiple disclosure subviews). There is no such control as part of the API. Most developers roll their own while some use third-party open source.
The Omni Frameworks have one such control that works very well (including "tear-off" panels, etc., if I recall correctly). The drawback: it's a large framework and has a lot of other stuff in it as well.
InspectorKit is another. It's more focused (just the control itself and an IB plugin), but the last incarnation I tested did have a few UI issues with the Interface Builder plugin.
I've also written a framework for handling this: SFBInspectors