The Application Kit is a collection of classes provided by OpenStep operating systems such as OPENSTEP, GNUstep, and Mac OS X.
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Subviews of a NSCollectionViewItem's view are always nil
I have a very basic setup with a NSCollectionView. I have a subclassed NSCollectionViewItem which is used as the itemPrototype for the collection view. The collection view item has a view.
Using ...
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How find out if I'm an NSButton with buttonType NSSwitchButton?
I'm subclassing NSButtonCell to customize the drawing (customizable theme). I'd like to customize the way checkboxes and radio buttons are drawn.
Does anyone know how to detect whether a button is a ...
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Autocomplete window appearing in wrong place for NSTokenField
I have a layer-backed NSTokenField that is in a NSSplitView. The split is initially collapsed, with the token field hidden. When I reveal the token field, it works properly, except that the ...
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Strange Behavior With NSTextField and an NSAttributedString Placeholder
I'm adding a placeholder to an NSTextField:
NSTextField *textField = [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 30.0)];
NSAttributedString *string = [[NSAttributedString alloc] ...
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Is it possible to turn NSNonactivatingPanelMask on and off on an NSPanel
I understand that this use case is atypical, but I've been trying to figure out a way to make an NSPanel non-activating, only in some circumstances.
If an NSPanel is initialized with ...
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Composing NSViews using Interface Builder only
I have some custom views that I want to reuse throughout my application.
I create a new Objective C class in XCode and set the type to 'NSViewController'. I check the box to create .xib file for the ...
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Open untitled file in Document-based app
I want my app to open new untitled document every time it starts. It worked in 10.6 but now I upgraded to 10.8 and when I close the window with cmd+w and then restart the application it wont open any ...
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Programmatically launching OS X's Contacts app showing a contact?
Let's say that I've just created an ABPerson record and managed to save it in the user's address book. How do I programmatically open the default application which handles the address book (which most ...
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Auto layout - The default spacing isn't the same between different for the NSTextField and the NSDatePicker [PIC]
I am using auto layout to organize my views for me. I am currently in the testing/design phase of a project and I am just trying to get this to work properly.
I have stacked a number of elements ...
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Getting continuous drag events for NSTextView
I'm new to NSTextView and AppKit event handling in general, so maybe this is simple. I'm trying to get the proper way to handle continuous drag events on a selected range of text from NSTextView. That ...
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Loading Images in Interface Builder (Cocoa)
When I load my images in Interface Builder, and choose the scaling as: "None", it adds the image scaled down a lot! I'd say almost 70% !!
Using "Proportionally up or down", and settings the image ...
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Open QLPreviewPanel in 'multi display' mode
I'm using QLPreviewPanel to display the contents of a folder. By default this shows the first item and then the user can tap the multi display button to display them all. I would like to go into multi ...
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Minimize-in-place - Do I need a custom framework
I want to create a system wide minimize-in-place feature that occurs when double-clicking the title bar of any visible window in layer 0.
It seems that this would be a really simple feature to ...
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Strange NSPasteboard and TextEdit interaction
I am drag-dropping a string from two places in my app. One from a custom NSView and one from a NSTableDataSource delegate. The first one allows me to drag text into the TextEdit application, the ...
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AppKit NSView class gets redefined
I have ported an older Xcode project to a new machine. The original version of this project was made on Snow Leopard OS, with 3.2.6 Xcode.
When i tried to recompile this project on the new machine ...
