Questions tagged [nscontrol]

NSControl is an abstract superclass that provides three fundamental features for implementing user interface devices: drawing devices on the screen, responding to user events, and sending action messages. It works closely with the NSCell class.

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Give a Key equivalent to NSButton dynamically

I want to assign a key equivalent to an NSButton if the control is the first responder.
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Windows vScrollBar Equivalent in Mac OSX

Does anyone know what is the equivalent of the vertical scroll bar from Windows in Mac OSX? I saw there is NSStepper. But I can't seem to change the display of it at run time. NSStepper *stepperBar = [[[NSStepper alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0,…
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How can I obtain window's NSControl* from custom sheet button?

I have a simple 'test bed' module consisting of an empty NSWindow. The only item on the window is a button labeled 'Toggle Window' and nothing else. It has one method shown below: -(IBAction)testResize:(NSControl*)sender; { NSRect frame =…
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NSTextField Cursor Position

Is there any way of getting the current cursor position in a NSTextField? I only find answers to UITextField which doesn't work for osx: if let selectedRange = textField.selectedTextRange{ let cursorPosition = textField.offset(from:…
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Layer-Backed NSControl Still Calls NSCell Drawing Routines

Context: Apple has "soft-deprecated" NSCell on macOS. I'm trying to reduce the use of it in my custom NSControl subclasses and, instead, use CALayers to handle my drawing. To do this, I make my NSButton subclass layer-backed: self.wantsLayer =…
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NSButton values are 1

I wanted to use an NSButton's integerValue to pass on information in a method and ran into a curious bug: whatever I set a value to - whether integerValue, stringValue, or floatValue, when I read it out, it's 1. NSButton inherits from NSControl and…
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How to catch some events on a NSControl in swift

I am writing an application for OSX in Swift and I am looking for a good way to catch events on a NSControl. Obviously, I searched but the informations I found are often unclear or old. In my case, I would like to catch several events on a…
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Subclassing NSControl, IBAction is not called in Swift

I've subclassed an NSSlider that behaves differently whether the option key is pressed. In order to do that, I overrode the mouseDown func. It seems to do the job. The thing is, I've noticed the connected @IBAction in my ViewController is only…
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NSPopupButton with color well

Some of the color selection buttons in the Xcode details panels are a NSPopupButton with a color well. It looks something like a segmented control/popup button. Placing a standard color well and standard popup button next to each other doesn't have…
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Can't see the list of events/actions during the Ctrl+drag operation in Xcode

I working with NSxxx kind of controls. It is OS X project. I expect to see the drop-down control "Event" between the fields "Name" and "Type", with the list of the control library events. Why I can not see it?
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Controls on NSPopover not responding

The setup is as follows: Menubar application with one view controller. The view from the view controller is stored in a NSMenuItem That view controller has one button we'll call 'Settings button' When you click Settings button a NSPopover is…
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Get a highlighted text in objective-c

I'm trying to get the StringValue of any text (Out side my application) that has been selected by the cursor. I tried checking on NSControl class,but i didn't find anything useful.
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Unresponsive UI Elements after closing NSWindow

Last week I spent a good amount of time fiddling around with the following problem. I solved it but since I couldn't find an answer here and I want to share my solution for anybody who runs into this. Problem: My application runs in the background…
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NSControl does not work on different Mac

I encountered a very strange problem which I can't solve by myself. I have several UI elements embedded in a NSWindow running as NSBorderlessWindowMask. There are 2 NSSlider, 3 NSButton, a NSComboBox and a NSColorWell. The application builds for…
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Hide NSTouchBar button

I'm working on a personal project in swift (for macOS app) and I want to make a NSbutton (Touch Bar button) and hide it. Is there a possible way to do this?
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