Playing around with BWToolKit
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Hey everyone,
I've been playing around with Brandon's new BWToolKit, and I was
wondering if there's any way to hook the ToolbarItems up through
code. I've got a window with four different sections, and I want to
have some NSMenuItems that, when selected, will open the window to the
appropriate section.
The closest I've come is to grab all the item identifiers and select
them that way, but I was wondering if anyone's found a more robust way
to do that.
Thanks,
Dave -
Hi Dave,
If the user isn't able to configure the toolbar, then all you need to
do is get a reference to the BWSelectableToolbar and call this method
on it:
- (void)switchToItemAtIndex:(int)anIndex animate:(BOOL)shouldAnimate
The index is the raw toolbar index - it's zero based and includes
spaces and separators. And in your case you'd pass in NO for
animation. In a future version of BWToolkit, I'll likely make this
more obvious and base it on the item identifier or the item label
rather than the index.
Cheers,
Brandon
On 15-Nov-08, at 8:51 PM, Dave DeLong wrote:> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been playing around with Brandon's new BWToolKit, and I was
> wondering if there's any way to hook the ToolbarItems up through
> code. I've got a window with four different sections, and I want to
> have some NSMenuItems that, when selected, will open the window to
> the appropriate section.
>
> The closest I've come is to grab all the item identifiers and select
> them that way, but I was wondering if anyone's found a more robust
> way to do that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave -
On Nov 16, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Brandon Walkin wrote:> Hi Dave,
>
> If the user isn't able to configure the toolbar, then all you need
> to do is get a reference to the BWSelectableToolbar and call this
> method on it:
>
> - (void)switchToItemAtIndex:(int)anIndex animate:(BOOL)shouldAnimate
>
> The index is the raw toolbar index - it's zero based and includes
> spaces and separators. And in your case you'd pass in NO for
> animation. In a future version of BWToolkit, I'll likely make this
> more obvious and base it on the item identifier or the item label
> rather than the index.
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon
>
>
> On 15-Nov-08, at 8:51 PM, Dave DeLong wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I've been playing around with Brandon's new BWToolKit, and I was
>> wondering if there's any way to hook the ToolbarItems up through
>> code. I've got a window with four different sections, and I want
>> to have some NSMenuItems that, when selected, will open the window
>> to the appropriate section.
>>
>> The closest I've come is to grab all the item identifiers and
>> select them that way, but I was wondering if anyone's found a more
>> robust way to do that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
I've been playing with this too, and I used -setSelectedIndex: because
that is in your header and -switchToItemAtIndex:animate: is marked as
private. I also tried using NSToolbar's -setSelectedItemIdentifier:,
however that causes the toolbar icon to change but not the view, so
you may want to override that.
1) add:
- (void)setSelectedItemIdentifier:(NSString *)itemIdentifier
{
selectedIndex = [itemIdentifiers indexOfObject:itemIdentifier];
[self switchToItemAtIndex:[self
toolbarIndexFromSelectableIndex:selectedIndex] animate:YES];
}
2) change line 284 in -selectItemAtIndex: to call supers implementation:
[super setSelectedItemIdentifier:identifier];
Using the label to change the toolbar selection is not a good idea
because the labels may be localized and then they won't match. And
using the index only works for toolbars that can't be modified. You
could create a custom NSToolbarItem class in IB and add the identifier
to the IB inspector, that way developers can set custom identifiers in
IB like they can when creating the toolbar items in code.
One more thing, any of the headers (like BWSelectableToolbar.h) that
users of your framework may need to use your classes, should be marked
as public so that the headers are exported with the framework and then
we can include them like:
#import "BWToolkitFramework/BWSelectableToolbar.h"
--Nathan -
On 16-Nov-08, at 5:10 AM, Nathan Kinsinger wrote:> On Nov 16, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Brandon Walkin wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> If the user isn't able to configure the toolbar, then all you need
>> to do is get a reference to the BWSelectableToolbar and call this
>> method on it:
>>
>> - (void)switchToItemAtIndex:(int)anIndex animate:(BOOL)shouldAnimate
>>
>> The index is the raw toolbar index - it's zero based and includes
>> spaces and separators. And in your case you'd pass in NO for
>> animation. In a future version of BWToolkit, I'll likely make this
>> more obvious and base it on the item identifier or the item label
>> rather than the index.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brandon
>>
>>
>> On 15-Nov-08, at 8:51 PM, Dave DeLong wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I've been playing around with Brandon's new BWToolKit, and I was
>>> wondering if there's any way to hook the ToolbarItems up through
>>> code. I've got a window with four different sections, and I want
>>> to have some NSMenuItems that, when selected, will open the window
>>> to the appropriate section.
>>>
>>> The closest I've come is to grab all the item identifiers and
>>> select them that way, but I was wondering if anyone's found a more
>>> robust way to do that.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dave
>
> I've been playing with this too, and I used -setSelectedIndex:
> because that is in your header and -switchToItemAtIndex:animate: is
> marked as private. I also tried using NSToolbar's -
> setSelectedItemIdentifier:, however that causes the toolbar icon to
> change but not the view, so you may want to override that.
>
> 1) add:
> - (void)setSelectedItemIdentifier:(NSString *)itemIdentifier
> {
> selectedIndex = [itemIdentifiers indexOfObject:itemIdentifier];
> [self switchToItemAtIndex:[self
> toolbarIndexFromSelectableIndex:selectedIndex] animate:YES];
> }
>
> 2) change line 284 in -selectItemAtIndex: to call supers
> implementation:
> [super setSelectedItemIdentifier:identifier];
>
> Using the label to change the toolbar selection is not a good idea
> because the labels may be localized and then they won't match. And
> using the index only works for toolbars that can't be modified. You
> could create a custom NSToolbarItem class in IB and add the
> identifier to the IB inspector, that way developers can set custom
> identifiers in IB like they can when creating the toolbar items in
> code.
>
> One more thing, any of the headers (like BWSelectableToolbar.h) that
> users of your framework may need to use your classes, should be
> marked as public so that the headers are exported with the framework
> and then we can include them like:
> #import "BWToolkitFramework/BWSelectableToolbar.h"
>
>
> --Nathan
>
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll implement them for the next release.
Just a note: I'm tracking issues on Bitbucket so if you have any other
bugs or feature enhancements, please post them there. http://www.bitbucket.org/bwalkin/bwtoolkit/issues/
Cheers,
Brandon
