I am trying to learn some programming for Mac and therefore I am trying to program a small single window application with a navigation located in a sidebar. Via this sidebar buttons I want to change the view that is presented in the Container View. I uploaded my current storyboard below so that you can get an overview of the description above.
Overview:
Since I am currently trying to implement exchanging the views inside the Container View I stumbled over the NSTabViewController class that seemed to provide a convenient way to achieve this. The problem with it is that it doesn't seem possible(couldn't find any hints) to remove the given tab control via the tabstyle attribute like in the NSTabView class.
Questions:
Is it possible to get rid of the default tab control so that it is tabless?
Is there an easier more modern approach of achieving my described 'application'
You can set the style of the tab view to tabless in Interface Builder:
Then your items on the left could control which tab should be selected.
Related
I have an Eclipse RCP application that defines multiple perspectives. The default perspective allows opening views (through the showView method) that are not defined in the IPerspectiveLayout class.
When switching to another perspective, these views disappear as they belong to the default one.
Is there a way of making these views persistable through perspective changes?
AFAIK there is no way to do that in RCP other than to declare a view as "sticky". But the sticky views have their limitations, use it with great care.
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fextension-points%2Forg_eclipse_ui_views.html
A sticky view is a view that will appear by default across all
perspectives in a window once it is opened. Its initial placement is
governemed by the location attribute, but nothing prevents it from
being moved or closed by the user. Use of this element will only cause
a placeholder for the view to be created, it will not show the view.
Please note that usage of this element should be done with great care
and should only be applied to views that truely have a need to live
across perspectives.
The view won't appear in the perspective, unless you define, that the view belongs to this perspective, while creating perspective layout or unless user opens it in the, using some action. So, you have to consider adding view placeholders to the perspective layout, see org.eclipse.ui.IFolderLayout.addPlaceholder(String viewId) method.
Does anyone knows a tutorial that could help me to build something similar to the browser of flipboard?
Basically i would like to filter some contents from a DB in my app and I am specially interested to understand how their browser was implemented as I would like:
To be able to have the browser to overlay the main view on the right
side.
Shadow the detail view when the browser is seen
To have a toolbar in the main view to filter some of my data too.
I am not sure if i should go for the master / detail template or start with a simple view template.
The feature I was looking at is easier to implement through a UIPopoverController. The popover allows to display a layer that overlay the main window and that can be dismissed when clicking outside of popover view.
Using the master/detail template was not adapted here. I started with a single view template instead.
I am still looking into some way for the customization of the UIPopoverController though.
Hello I have a prism/mvvm style application and am using the RadMenu control. I also have a view/view model pair in one project and another view/view model pair for my RadMenu control in another project. Basically I would like to use the event aggregator to send an event to the view model for the RadMenu (the view model that is paired with the view that the RadMenu sits inside of). So that the RadMenu's view model can notify the RadMenu to switch to a different RadMenuItem programmatically. I think I can use a blend behavior to contain the behavior I'm looking to reproduce, but I cannot find a method in the RadMenu that will allow me to programmatically select a specific menu item.
If the control does not support this now, is there a work around? Thanks.
I believe this is a missunderstanding. As far as I know there is no selection on the RadMenu. You can only Check or Uncheck Items in your Menus. Are you trying to emulate a user clicking on a specific item just to trigger the functionality behind the menu-item? If that's the case I would propose another way and directly handle the EA-Message in the ViewModel. You can trigger the code from there then. If you're doing MVVM the logic behind the menu-items is implented in your VM anyways. :)
I am very new to iOS development. I am going to start a new project which is mostly related to to the database. Can you suggest what should I start from Window or view based app?
A view-based app only have one view, and includes a nib. However, window based app don't include a nib or a view, it's for add your own view.
I would chose view-based
1.There is no such difference in both
In View Based app you will get a default view controller in window.
In Window Based app you will not get anything by default already added in window, you have to add your own view.
They're used for different things. Neither is better than the other.
If you're a total rookie, I'd go with View based. It comes wired up with more stuff for you by default, and lets you work on your app's functionality rather than the details of getting stuff on the screen. It also limits you in ways that Window based doesn't, but for your level that's probably a good thing.
Anyway you have to make ViewController if you make project using window based.
Make your project using window based and View based. and compare both. So you can find what is different.
and iOS can have many view on only one window.
I want to use two different uitabbar control in the application. first UITABbar control i add in the starting windows. and in this after the navigation i want to show the other tab bar with 5 tabs. can any one suggest how i do this ?
Or we need to add a different window for add this and need to show this windows on the click or other?
Please suggest.
Thanks
The Human Interface Guidelines specifically recommend against having multiple tab bars in your application:
If your application provides different
perspectives on the same set of data,
or different subtasks related to the
overall function of the application,
you might want to use a tab bar. A tab
bar appears at the bottom edge of the
screen.
A tab bar gives users the ability to switch among different modes or
views in an application, and users
should be able to access these modes
from everywhere in the application.
However, a tab bar should never be
used as a toolbar, which contains
buttons that act on elements in the
current mode (see “Toolbars” for more
information on toolbars).
If you need to have context-specific actions, use a toolbar instead.