I want to prevent certain toolbar items from being removed by the user. They should still be movable, just not removable.
I tried creating a custom subclass of NSToolbar with a custom removeItem(at:) implementation, but it seems this method is not even called if the user drags an item out of the toolbar in the customization palette.
The delegate also doesn't seem to expose functionality for this.
How can I disable removal of certain NSToolbarItems?
I am not sure if you can prevent it from being removed but you can implement the optional toolbarDidRemoveItem method and insert the item that you don't want it to be removed back:
import Cocoa
class WindowController: NSWindowController, NSToolbarDelegate {
#IBOutlet weak var toolbar: Toolbar!
override func windowDidLoad() {
super.windowDidLoad()
toolbar.delegate = self
}
func toolbarDidRemoveItem(_ notification: Notification) {
if let itemIdentifier = (notification.userInfo?["item"] as? NSToolbarItem)?.itemIdentifier,
itemIdentifier.rawValue == "NSToolbarShowColorsItem" {
toolbar.insertItem(withItemIdentifier: itemIdentifier, at: 0)
}
}
}
Since it is not super critical if they are removed in case a private API call would stop working, I opted for the private API solution.
extension NSToolbarItem {
func setIsUserRemovable(_ flag: Bool) {
let selector = Selector(("_setIsUserRemovable:"))
if responds(to: selector) {
perform(selector, with: flag)
}
}
}
This works exactly as advertised.
Related
I've tried, without success, respond to events such as windowWillClose() and windowShouldClose() inside NSWindowController (yes conforming to NSWindowDelegate).
Later, to my surprise, I was able to receive those events if I make my contentViewController (NSViewController) conform to NSWindowDelegate.
Unfortunately, later on, found out that view.window?.windowController is nil inside windowWillClose() or windowShouldClose(), code:
override func viewDidAppear() {
super.viewDidAppear()
self.view.window?.delegate = self
self.view.window?.windowController // not nil!
}
func windowWillClose(_ notification: Notification) {
self.view.window?.windowController // nil!!
}
func windowShouldClose(_ sender: NSWindow) -> Bool {
self.view.window?.windowController // nil!!
return true
}
After realizing that view.window?.windowController is not nil inside viewDidAppear() the next thing I thought was that Swift garbage collected the controller, so I changed viewDidAppear() in a way that creates another reference of windowController thus preventing garbage collection on said object, code:
var windowController: NSWindowController?
override func viewDidAppear() {
super.viewDidAppear()
self.view.window?.delegate = self
windowController = view.window?.windowController
}
func windowWillClose(_ notification: Notification) {
self.view.window?.windowController // NOT nil
}
func windowShouldClose(_ sender: NSWindow) -> Bool {
self.view.window?.windowController // NOT nil
return true
}
My hypothesis turned out to be correct (I think).
Is this the same issue that is preventing me from receiving those events inside NSWindowController?
Is there another way I can achieve the same thing without creating more object references?
In order to post code, I use the Answer option even though it is more of a comment.
I added in NSViewController:
override func viewDidAppear() {
super.viewDidAppear()
parentWindowController = self.view.window!.windowController
self.view.window!.delegate = self.view.window!.windowController as! S1W2WC. // The NSWC class, which conforms to NSWindowDelegate
print(#function, "windowController", self.view.window!, self.view.window!.windowController)
}
I get print log:
viewDidAppear() windowController Optional()
and notification is passed.
But if I change to
override func viewDidAppear() {
super.viewDidAppear()
// parentWindowController = self.view.window!.windowController
self.view.window!.delegate = self.view.window!.windowController as! S1W2WC
print(#function, "windowController", self.view.window!, self.view.window!.windowController)
}
by commenting out parentWindowController, notification don't go anymore to the WindowController…
Edited: I declared in ViewController:
var parentWindowController: NSWindowController? // Helps keep a reference to the controller
The proposed solutions are, in my opinion, hacks that can cause serious problems with memory management by creating circular references. You definitely can make instances of NSWindowController work as the window’s delegate. The proper way is to wire it up correctly in either code or in Interface Builder in Xcode. An example of how to do it properly is offered here.
If the delegate methods are not called is because the wiring up is not done correctly.
Another thing that must be done in Swift is when you add the name of the NSWindowController subclass in Interface Builder in Xcode is to check the checkbox of Inherits from Module. If you fail to do this, none of your subclass methods will be called.
I'm trying to create my first Cocoapod framework, and need to attach a simple UITapGestureRecognizer to a view, but I can't get the tap gesture action to be called from within my framework. I've got:
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let foo = Foo()
foo.attachTo(view: view)
}
}
I created a framework using pod lib create Foo, inside is
public class Foo {
public init() {}
public func attachTo(view: UIView) {
let endpointGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(selected(_:)))
view.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
view.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
view.addGestureRecognizer(endpointGesture)
}
#objc private func selected(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
print("Gesture Recognized")
}
}
I can tell the view is correctly passed into the framework because building the app gives me a blue screen.
Moving the gesture recognizer and selected function into ViewController works as expected as well. Tapping on the view prints Gesture Recognized to the console, so there's something going on with the framework I don't understand.
I have already tried adding the -ObjC linker flag to the framework, but that doesn't seem to have done anything. Am I missing something?
The problem is that your foo variable is not retained.
If you make the foo variable as instance variable it should work.
class ViewController: UIViewController {
let foo = Foo() // this is now retained by the view controller
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
foo.attachTo(view: view)
}
}
I have the following code:
extension ViewController {
func AddLeftGesture(){
let SwipeLeft:UITapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(MyDismissOnSwipeLeft))
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(SwipeLeft)
}
func MyDismissOnSwipeLeft(){
self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}
and What I would like to accomplish is that override the viewDidLoad and
call AddLeftGesture method so that it'll be part of each VC I make
and I don't have to type it again and again in each viewDidLoad,
is this possible? or do you guys have any other suggestions?
well I don't think it's a good idea, because typically viewDidLoad is used for setting most properties and if you would like to override it in a view controller you should write it again.What I can suggest is that to make a base ViewController and add this code in the viewDidLoad of that and then subclass every viewController from the base view controller , This way whenever you want to change anything you just call super.viewDidLoad
class BaseViewController: UIViewController{
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
addLeftGesture()
}
}
class CustomViewController: BaseViewController{
}
Make this class which inherits UITapGestureRecognizer
open class BlockTap: UITapGestureRecognizer {
fileprivate var tapAction: ((UITapGestureRecognizer) -> Void)?
public override init(target: Any?, action: Selector?) {
super.init(target: target, action: action)
}
public convenience init (
tapCount: Int = 1,
fingerCount: Int = 1,
action: ((UITapGestureRecognizer) -> Void)?) {
self.init()
self.numberOfTapsRequired = tapCount
#if os(iOS)
self.numberOfTouchesRequired = fingerCount
#endif
self.tapAction = action
self.addTarget(self, action: #selector(BlockTap.didTap(_:)))
}
open func didTap (_ tap: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
tapAction? (tap)
}
}
then make an extension of UIView
extension UIView {
public func addTapGesture(tapNumber: Int = 1, action: ((UITapGestureRecognizer) -> ())?) {
let tap = BlockTap(tapCount: tapNumber, fingerCount: 1, action: action)
addGestureRecognizer(tap)
isUserInteractionEnabled = true
}
}
Then You can use this as
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.view.addTapGesture(action: {[unowned self] (_) in
//Do whatever on click of View
})
}
Hope it helps!
There's two options AFAIK. Either you can subclass UIViewController and then make all of your controllers inherit from the subclassed one, or you can swizzle UIViewController's viewDidLoad().
I personally would choose swizzling, although it has one disadvantage - it hides the implementation and might be confusing for a new developer coming onto a project. So make sure you document this properly, somewhere in your project README and in the code as well.
Now for some code examples:
Subclassing UIViewController
MyViewController.swift
class MyViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
addGesture()
}
func addGesture() {
// Do what you need
}
}
class OtherViewController: MyViewController {
// Automatically will add gesture because it's a subclass of MyViewController
}
Swizzling viewDidLoad
What method swizzling does is, that it exchanges implementations of your methods. That simply means that the name of your function points at code from a different function. For more information on this topic read this article.
UIViewController+Swizzle.swift
static func swizzle(selector originalSelector: Selector,
with newSelector: Selector,
on targetClass: AnyClass) {
let originalMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(targetClass, originalSelector)
let swizzledMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(targetClass, newSelector)
// If we were able to add the swizzled function, replace methods.
// Otherwise exchange implementations if method already exists.
if class_addMethod(targetClass, originalSelector,
method_getImplementation(swizzledMethod),
method_getTypeEncoding(swizzledMethod)) {
class_replaceMethod(targetClass, newSelector,
method_getImplementation(originalMethod),
method_getTypeEncoding(originalMethod))
} else {
method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, swizzledMethod)
}
}
extension UIViewController {
// This function is getting called automatically by the runtime,
// when this class is loaded to perform some additional intiialization.
// However, this has now been deprecated in Swift, so only option is to
// declare a static function which you need to remember to call from
// somewhere, preferably early in your app initialization, like your
// didFinishLaunching function in AppDelegate or even AppDelegate's init
// function. I kept the initialize function in the code as a reference,
// however you would probably want to write it like in the comment
// below, to silence the warning.
//
// class func swizzle()
//
open override class func initialize() {
if self != UIViewController.self { return }
let swizzlingClosure: () = {
swizzle(selector: #selector(UIViewController.viewDidLoad),
with: #selector(UIViewController.swizzled_viewDidLoad),
on: UIViewController.self)
}()
swizzlingClosure
}
#objc private func swizzled_viewDidLoad() {
// Calls the original implementation,
// because implementations are switched.
swizzled_viewWillAppear(animated)
// Do whatever you need
addGesture()
}
#objc func addGesture() {
// Add your gesture
}
}
Trying to setup validation for a few text fields in a new (and very small) Swift Mac app. Following various other topics here on SO and a few other examples, I can still not get controlTextDidChange to propagate (to my ViewController).
E.g: How to live check a NSTextField - Swift OS X
I have read at least a dozen variations of basically that same concept. Since none of the accepted answers seem to work I am just getting more and more confused by something which is generally a fairly simple task on most platforms.
I have controlTextDidChange implemented to just call NSLog to let me know if I get anything.
AppDelegate should be part of the responder chain and should eventually handle controlTextDidChange but I see nothing there either.
Using the current Xcode I start a new project. Cocoa app, Swift, Storyboard and nothing else.
From what I can gather the below isolated example should work. In my actual app I have tried some ways of inserting the ViewController into the responder chain. Some answers I found suggested it was not always there. I also tried manually adding the ViewController as the delegate in code theTextField.delegate = self
Nothing I have done seems to get text changed to trigger any events.
Any ideas why I have so much trouble setting up this delegation?
My single textfield example app
Storyboard is about as simple as it gets:
AppDelegate
import Cocoa
#NSApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, NSTextFieldDelegate, NSTextDelegate {
func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) {
// Insert code here to initialize your application
}
func applicationWillTerminate(_ aNotification: Notification) {
// Insert code here to tear down your application
}
func controlTextDidChange(notification: NSNotification) {
let object = notification.object as! NSTextField
NSLog("AppDelegate::controlTextDidChange")
NSLog("field contains: \(object.stringValue)")
}
}
ViewController
import Cocoa
class ViewController: NSViewController, NSTextFieldDelegate, NSTextDelegate {
#IBOutlet var theTextField: NSTextField!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}
override var representedObject: Any? {
didSet {
// Update the view, if already loaded.
}
}
func controlTextDidChange(notification: NSNotification) {
let object = notification.object as! NSTextField
NSLog("ViewController::controlTextDidChange")
NSLog("field contains: \(object.stringValue)")
}
}
I think the samples you're following are a bit out-of-date.
Try...
override func controlTextDidChange(_ notification: Notification) {
...as the function definition for your method in your NSTextFieldDelegate.
I am new to OS X app development. I manage to built the NSComboBox (Selectable, not editable), I can get it indexOfSelectedItem on action button click, working fine.
How to detect the the value on change? When user change their selection, what kind of function I shall use to detect the new selected index?
I tried to use the NSNotification but it didn't pass the new change value, always is the default value when load. It is because I place the postNotificationName in wrong place or there are other method should use to get the value on change?
I tried searching the net, video, tutorial but mostly written for Objective-C. I can't find any answer for this in SWIFT.
import Cocoa
class NewProjectSetup: NSViewController {
let comboxRouterValue: [String] = ["No","Yes"]
#IBOutlet weak var projNewRouter: NSComboBox!
#IBAction func btnAddNewProject(sender: AnyObject) {
let comBoxID = projNewRouter.indexOfSelectedItem
print(“Combo Box ID is: \(comBoxID)”)
}
#IBAction func btnCancel(sender: AnyObject) {
self.dismissViewController(self)
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
addComboxValue(comboxRouterValue,myObj:projNewRouter)
self.projNewRouter.selectItemAtIndex(0)
let notificationCenter = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter()
notificationCenter.addObserver(
self,
selector: “testNotication:”,
name:"NotificationIdentifier",
object: nil)
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName("NotificationIdentifier", object: projNewRouter.indexOfSelectedItem)
}
func testNotication(notification: NSNotification){
print("Found Combo ID \(notification.object)")
}
func addComboxValue(myVal:[String],myObj:AnyObject){
let myValno: Int = myVal.count
for var i = 0; i < myValno; ++i{
myObj.addItemWithObjectValue(myVal[i])
}
}
}
You need to define a delegate for the combobox that implements the NSComboBoxDelegate protocol, and then use the comboBoxSelectionDidChange(_:) method.
The easiest method is for your NewProjectSetup class to implement the delegate, as in:
class NewProjectSetup: NSViewController, NSComboBoxDelegate { ... etc
Then in viewDidLoad, also include:
self.projNewRouter.delegate = self
// self (ie. NewProjectSetup) implements NSComboBoxDelegate
And then you can pick up the change in:
func comboBoxSelectionDidChange(notification: NSNotification) {
print("Woohoo, it changed")
}