I am trying to add a "New" button and a "Search" button for my app onto the Touch Bar. In system apps, these are a plus sign and a magnifying glass, respectively. Is there a way to use these system icons on my touch bar buttons, such as in UIBarButtonItems? If not, how can I set a touch bar button's content to be a magnifying glass or plus sign? I am using Swift. Thanks.
Apple provides many system icons that you can use in your app.
The Human Interface Guidelines has a nice visual reference of all of the icons available here. These can be referenced in your app by using the associated NSImage.Name constant (also described in the HIG).
As an example, the new and search images can be gotten using:
let addImage = NSImage(named: .touchBarAddTemplate)
let searchImage = NSImage(named: .touchBarSearchTemplate)
Maybe you could find those icons in the system files, copy them and use them in your application, but I would not recommend it. They are Apple's intellectual property and you are not allowed to use them for public projects.
You should search on sites like flaticon.com for similar artworks or create them yourself.
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I want to make an NSToggleButton because it suits my needs perfectly: show one image when toggled on, another when it's toggled off.
From Apple's Developer website:
"After the first click, the button displays its alternate image or title; a second click returns the button to its normal state.
This option is called “Toggle” in Interface Builder’s Button Inspector.
Available in OS X v10.0 and later."
- Source
When looking at the Round Rect Button I created in Interface Builder, however, I can't find a "Toggle" attribute. My google and StackOverflow searches yield only questions around attributes for the control, but I haven't found a tutorial for creating this button in particular.
How do I create a NSToggleButton in Interface Builder? Where is it in the Object library?
The source you provdided is for OSX programming. Not iOS however this can be implemented yourself. A UIButton is just a UIView so add a UIImageView as a subview then when the button is clicked set hidden to either YES or NO
NSToggleButton is an AppKit class -- MacOS X only. You won't find it if you're building an iOS app. Classes from the Foundation framework have an NS prefix and are available in iOS (NSArray, NSDictionary, etc.), but the user interface classes in iOS are in UIKit and have a UI prefix. Take a look at UISwitch for similar functionality.
I have multi-selection dialog(drop-down) in Android where user selects all options applicable to him in registration page.What can be used in Iphone for the same purpose ?
And selecting a few options will unhide few textfields which is mandatory to fill.
Let me know what can be my approach.Please share any open source code links.
Thanks in advance.
No, there is no such thing within the iOS SDK and that is for a good reason - those elements are just not pretty, funky and usable well enough when acting on a touch display.
Consider using UIPickerView or UISegmentedControl instead. Maybe also have a look at Action Sheet.
The Xcode docs, explain that the CFBundleURLIconFile key contains the name of the icon image file (minus the extension) to be used for displaying URLs of this type.
My remaining questions are:
What icon image should I use? Like, if the URL type is for another app, should I use that app's app icon?
What size(s)? If many sizes, how do I name them so that the sizes are used correctly?
Where is it displayed? I'm wondering for an iPhone app.
Apple does not specify this specifically, but my interpretation is that it should be an Icon representing the application which should/will open/handle URLs of this type.
On OS X, the normal approach would be to use an Icon File (.icns). I suspect you should try that on your iOS app. If that doesn't work, duplicate the naming scheme of the the standard app icon files.
Try viewing a PDF in Safari on iOS. If you have iBooks, it should show a button saying "Open in iBooks" and shows an icon next to it. This icon is the icon you would be setting.
I hope this is thorough enough to answer your questions. If not, please explain what needs clarification.
If you want to make a multilingual button on a native iPhone app, where it can be one language by default, but based on your settings, show different text on the same button, how would you go about it?
Is it also possible to style (e.g. with text-shadows and custom fonts) the text on the button?
I'm not an iOS developer, but I'm attempting to provide designs for an iOS developer and don't understand the limitations (yet) when going from CSS3 to iOS UI elements.
So far, iOS development appears to be like creating image-maps where none of the CSS logic is applicable from web development and almost all UI elements appear to need all states as flattened images. I thought the controls were more dynamic but haven't found the right terminology for results from google to be very forthcoming on the topic.
U can use NSLocalizedString for multilingual text on button.
Configuring Button Title
titleLabel property
reversesTitleShadowWhenHighlighted property
– setTitle:forState:
– setTitleColor:forState:
– setTitleShadowColor:forState:
– titleColorForState:
– titleForState:
– titleShadowColorForState:
Also set Custom font like this:
yourButton.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Courier" size:22.0];
if u want to add gradient to button then u will have to use CALayer like this:
yourButton.layer = //any modification in button's layer here
For more refer UIButton class reference
I'm trying to make a popup like in "Camera+" or "Tweetbot" (like this one : Tweetbot or this one Camera+). How can I do this ?
That component is generally called a Popover or a Callout. Apple provides you with an Implementation on the iPad (UIPopover) but not on the iPhone.
There are a few Libraries which attempts to solve this and creates similar popovers like the ones you've shown. With a bit of customisation you can get it to look like this ones you've linked. Below is a list of the ones i've found so far:
WEPopover
CMPopTipView
PopupView
There's similar question here: iPhone popup menu like iPad popover?.
There is a solution. It's called WEPopover and you can download it from github.
For ipad use the popover control:
http://www.matthewcasey.co.uk/2010/04/07/tutorial-introduction-to-pop-over-control-on-ipad-part-1/
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/iPadControllers/iPadControllers.html
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIPopoverController_class/Reference/Reference.html