Axamblis Developer Podcast http://blog.axamblis.com The Axamblis podcast on Cocoa, Xcode and various developer topics. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Axamblis podcast on Cocoa, Xcode and various developer topics. Fabian Schuiki http://www.axamblis.com/media/adp/artwork_small.jpgAxamblis Developer Podcasthttp://blog.axamblis.com axamblis, xcode, interface builder, developer, cocoa, osx no Fabian Schuiki fabianschuiki@axamblis.com Episode 1: SplitView-aligned Toolbar http://blog.axamblis.com/?p=37 http://blog.axamblis.com/?p=37#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:48:57 +0000 Fabian Schuiki http://blog.axamblis.com/?p=37 This is the very first episode of the Axamblis Developer Podcast. We’re looking at how to create a custom NSToolbar which aligns a subset of its items along the right side of a split view divider in the same window. This behaviour which makes the items feel like they stick to the divider can also be found in other apps like Apple Mail or Espresso (my favourite web editor, by the way).

SplitView-aligned Toolbar

In order to get the desired bevaviour we make use of some undocumented API in the NSToolbar class, and we use method swizzling to inject some custom code into the NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem class.

The category used for swizzling methods:

The project file (Xcode 3.1 and higher) as well as the .h and .m files:

Enjoy the show and drop me a line if you have any comments or questions or other feedback!

]]> http://blog.axamblis.com/?feed=rss2&p=37 0 <p>This is the very first episode of the Axamblis Developer Podcast. We’re looking at how to create a custom NSToolbar which aligns a subset of its items along the right side of a split view divider in the same window. This behaviour which makes the items feel like they stick to the divider can also be found in other apps like Apple Mail or <a href="http://macrabbit.com/espresso/" target="_blank">Espresso</a> (my favourite web editor, by the way).</p> <p><a href="http://blog.axamblis.com/wp-content/uploads/ADPE1_screenshot11.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-50" title="SplitView-aligned Toolbar" src="http://blog.axamblis.com/wp-content/uploads/ADPE1_screenshot11.png" alt="SplitView-aligned Toolbar" width="564" height="206" /></a></p> <p>In order to get the desired bevaviour we make use of some undocumented API in the NSToolbar class, and we use method swizzling to inject some custom code into the NSToolbarFlexibleSpaceItem class.</p> <p>The category used for swizzling methods:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.axamblis.com/wp-content/uploads/NSObject-MethodSwizzling.zip">NSObject-MethodSwizzling</a></li> </ul> <p>The project file (Xcode 3.1 and higher) as well as the .h and .m files:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.axamblis.com/wp-content/uploads/SplitViewAlignedToolbar-Project.zip">SplitViewAlignedToolbar Project</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.axamblis.com/wp-content/uploads/SplitViewAlignedToolbar-Header+Implementation.zip">SplitViewAlignedToolbar Header+Implementation</a></li> </ul> <p>Enjoy the show and drop me a line if you have any comments or questions or other feedback!</p> This is the very first episode of the Axamblis Developer Podcast. We’re looking at how to create a custom NSToolbar which aligns a subset of its items along the right side of a split view divider in the same window. This behaviour which makes the [...]