I wish to know how something like remotely altering an app's content or an app's UI Elements would look.
I have already been using remoteConfig to alter certain content (for instance, UILabels) remotely, though the response time is variable and not immediate.
What I wish to know is, how can I use Firebase/Cloud Firestore such that I can remotely change the status of my app. For instance, if I want to disable userInteraction for a particular button remotely, how can I go about that? Or if I need to change an image displayed remotely, what knowledge do I need to do this? RemoteConfig is unable to achieve these 2 particular tasks.
There is no such thing as changing an app remotely. The app is in sole charge of itself. If the app gets its data from firestore and there is something about that data that makes the app want to disable a button, it disables its own button.
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I'm using xcuitest framework to automate mac application. I get system dialogs when the app is opened again after it crashes. I want to handle the dialog programmatically. But the dialog appears under the process `UserNotificationCenter' instead of the application under test. How can I handle the alert in such case?
You have two options:
Use InterruptionMonitor (documentation, use-case). This
approach is however kinda old and I found, that it does not work for
all dialogs and situations.
Create a method, which will wait for some regular app's button. If the app's button (or tab bar or other such XCUIElement) is visible and hittable after your app started, you can proceed with your test and if it's not, you can wait for the UserNotificationCenter dialog's button and identify&tap it by its string/position.
I'm using the second approach and its working much better, than the InterruptionMonitor. But it really depends on your app layout and use-case.
You should be able to revent it from appearing in the first place. Something like:
defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none
Is it possible to directly copy a value from a shortcut item without entering the app? I want to do something similar to Apple's Calculator App:
This is not possible as of now, otherwise the user would not be able to figure out if anything happened or not.
And for the calculator app, when you tap copy result it opens the Calculator app and then copies the last result.
You can do somewhat similar by showing a view controller that shows result copied or something similar.
I am trying to make a function so that I request a 'manager override' where it presents a screen for a manager to enter their password and press an approve button. How should I do this? Will it have to be in multiple functions? Is there a way that I can call one function and it present the information back? Would a completion work for what I need? I have no ideas where to start for this.
My set up is as follows:
A view controller asks for manager approval, then a screen slides up with text boxes and an approve button. I want the approve button to trigger authenticating and dismissing the screen
Assuming you don't want a Framework target (that sounds like overkill for what you want) simply mark the function as "public" and move it outside of any class. I just tried in a sample project and it works.
It looks important - remember to keep it in a file already in the project. (My sample project didn't work with menu option File|Add|New|File.)
Now, if you really want portability, check out how to create a Framework project.
To understand NSUserNotification better, I wrote a little test app playing with this class.
So far so good, except that no matter how hard I tried to feed the additionalActions property with array of NSUserNotificationAction objects, it never showed any difference but only one action button and a close one.
My expectation for this property is that the notification would show a pull-down menu containing the additional buttons I offer as it does in the Mac App Store update notifications.
Am I missing something? Or are you having the same problem, since it is a bug awaiting Apple to tackle?
Can you please try to click and hold down the action button in your notification? Does it show a drop-down menu of additionalActions?
Update
As it turns out, you can show the little chevron next to the action button by setting a true value for the private _alwaysShowAlternateActionMenu key on the notification. In Swift 3, it would look like this:
notification.setValue(true, forKey: "_alwaysShowAlternateActionMenu")
However, as I mentioned this is a private API and I strongly advise against using it if you want to distribute your App through the Mac App Store.
It is probably a bug. Setting up additionalActions will create the list, but not the little arrow icon. Holding down on actionButton will show the menu with the number of actions you set.
Besides setting additionalActions will cause several other problems. I will save this for another question.
Refer to another question.
show NSUserNotification additionalActions on click
P.S. I am using El Capitan APIs
good day, i am working on a system using Oracle Forms Builder. i have 3 forms, MAIN, LOGIN, and REGISTER and a menu form named MENU_MAIN, it is attached to the 3 forms, the first form that will be shown is the MAIN, i made some buttons disabled because the user cant access unless they are registered and login, now my problem is, after they login they are prompted again to the MAIN and i need the button that is disabled to be enabled, how can i do that? am i gonna put the code on the LOGIN? thanks for the response
"am i gonna put the code on the LOGIN?"
Well I honestly don't know which other part of your application can know that a user has logged in, so yes, the LOGIN screen has to handle this.
What should it do? It should set a value in a global variable. Your MAIN screen should interrogate the global variable, probably in a When-New-Form-Instance trigger, and set the buttons' properties accordingly.