Single-issue posts dealing with a particular class or problem.
Jul 16 2017
Xcode 9b/Swift 4/macOS 10.12 (This tutorial has been updated and tested under Xcode 9 since the previous instructions no longer worked to create new projects, which is exactly the same problem I had going from 7 to 8/10.10 to 10.11. I currently have one project that will compile and run under Xcode 8, but crash […]
Jun 30 2017
1) Constants let myConstant: Int = 0 This is, of course, not a variable. This is a constant. One of the nice things about Swift constants is that let decideLater: Bool is perfectly legitimate, as long as it is set before initialisation has ended: Combined with init(somethingElse: String){ if somethingElse = “You’ll never guess” { […]
Jan 15 2017
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 […]
Jan 15 2017
Swift 3, macOS 10.12 class Food { var name: String = “” init(name: String){ self.name = name } } let chocolate = Food(name: “Chocolate”) let spinach = Food(name: “Spinach”) let greenTea = Food(name: “Green Tea”) let favouriteThings = [greenTea, chocolate, greenTea, spinach, greenTea] If your element conforms to the equatable protocol or inherits from NSObject, […]
Jan 12 2017
macOS 10.12, Xcode 8.0, Swift 3 Storyboard segues make it exceedingly easy to create popovers, but sometimes you want to customise your popovers a bit more, for instance make windows detachable. When building interfaces the old-fashioned way with xib files or in code, you would use the NSPopoverDelegate protocol and wire things up appropriately. Storyboards […]
Jan 10 2017
OSX 10.12, Xcode 8.0 I’m not entirely certain under which circumstances this is useful, but [code language=”plain”]class invisibleWindowController: NSWindowController { override func windowDidLoad() { super.windowDidLoad() self.window?.isOpaque = false self.window?.backgroundColor = NSColor.clear } }[/code] is a thing of beauty. If the view in the window’s contentViewController overrides override func draw(_ dirtyRect: NSRect), the effect is […]
Jan 8 2017
Credit for extending Selector goes entirely to Andyy Hope (@AndyyHope) who posted this article on Medium: He looks at the problem of Swift selector syntax being somewhat unwieldy, and turns it into [code language=”plain”]fileprivate extension Selector { static let buttonTapped = #selector(ViewController.buttonTapped(_:)) }[/code] Thanks to fileprivate, you don’t get namespacing conflicts. Awesome. So I […]
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 3 2017
(Xcode 8.0, OSX 10.11) For the app I am currently working on, I wanted to implement the following: – user can import a picture – user can change their mind and undo their choice, up to a point – I don’t need to store a million images in my app And there are many ways […]
Oct 28 2017
macOS Storyboard Segues
The other day I had what I thought a very simple request: I wanted to replace one viewcontroller with another in the same window. This is something that on iOS (particularly iPhones) happens all the time; but somewhat to my suprise, macOS does not have an obvious out-of-the-box solution for this. This turns out to […]
By Extelligent Cocoa • Application Design, Design Patterns, Interface, Wiki • • Tags: NSStoryboardSegue, NSViewController, NSWindowController, storyboards