Jan 4 2017
Xcode 8.0, macOS 10.11 (This is Part 1 of 3; in which we will create an NSOutlineView with a flexible data structure that can be used for simple trees and for structures like the one below which contain a number of different, unrelated items. Part 2 will deal with inserting and deleting items, and reacting […]
Jan 4 2017
(OSX 10.11, Xcode 8) Create a new app: drop an NSImageView and two buttons into the storyboard, set up an outlet for the image view and two actions – zoomIn and zoomOut for the buttons. 0) Not recommended: scaleUnitSquare @IBAction func zoomOut(_ sender: AnyObject) { imageView.scaleUnitSquare(to: NSSize(width: 0.4, height: 0.4)) } This works perfectly fine. […]
Dec 6 2016
(This post is based on https://www.raywenderlich.com/98178/os-x-tutorial-menus-popovers-menu-bar-apps), expanded and updated for Swift 3. This seems to be the only tutorial in town – at least I’ve seen a couple of other tutorials that were suspiciously similar, right down to the architecture and the location of the event monitoring code.) Xcode 8.0, macOS 10.11 1) Start simple: […]
Jan 15 2017
NSOutlineView Part 2: Making the outlineView useful
Xcode 8, macOS 10.12, Swift 3.0 In Part 1 of this tutorial, we created an outlineView that, thanks to a SourceListItem protocol, was indefinitely flexible: you can have different classes on several levels, or indefinite levels (though it is probably wise to limit this programatically so you don’t nest too deep. It all depends on […]
By Extelligent Cocoa • Application Design, Interface, Tutorials, Wiki • • Tags: NSOutlineView, SourceList