NSPopover

Storyboard ID Caveat

Dec 27 2017

Storyboard ID Caveat

macOS 10.12, Xcode 9.2 Do not use the name of a viewController subclass as your Storyboard ID. I’ve had both ‘Storyboard […] doesn’t contain a controller with identifier ‘MyCustomController’ and the cast to MyCustomController failing randomly; in one instance a cast to NSViewController worked, but MyCustomController did not. When I set the identifier to “CustomVC” […]

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NSPopover and storyboards

Jan 12 2017

NSPopover and storyboards

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 […]

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Status Bar App

Dec 6 2016

Status Bar App

(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: […]

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