Re: Creating Toolbar Items in IB
Re: Creating Toolbar Items in IB
- Subject: Re: Creating Toolbar Items in IB
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:33:05 -0700
On Oct 22, 2008, at 17:39, Graham Cox wrote:
I can place a toolbar in my window, and I can add items to it. I can
set the delegate outlet of the toolbar to my document controller.
What I can't do is to tie any outlets to the toolbar items or set
any actions or targets for the items. IB's interface doesn't even
let me select the items individually, and I cannot assign my own
identifiers to them.
At runtime, when the nib is loaded, the pre-installed items are
there but they have been assigned identifiers which are UUID
strings. My delegate gets called and I can add additional custom
items just as I would if I were doing it all in code, but for the
nib-supplied items, I get nothing. Since the identifiers are
assigned UUIDs somewhere there's no way to know what identifier to
use to retrieve an item from the bar and fix up its target/action.
The whole ability to set up toolbars in IB appears to be useless to
me.
So before I ditch it all and go back to doing it the harder-but-
saner way, can anyone point me in the direction of something that
will help me make any sense of this?
The identifier thing is annoying. There isn't any way to set your own.
The best alternative seems to be to create an outlet for each toolbar
item you need to refer to in code, and hook them up in IB. Then you
can extract the identifier via the outlet if you need it.
The toolbar that IB shows you in its owner window is actually the
default set of items, and you can't select them individually there. To
get the full set of items, you click on the toolbar once to select it,
then again so that the "allowed items" sheet slides out, and you can
select individual items in that sheet. Click once to select the
toolbar item, click again to select the underlying control.
There were some bugs in IB's toolbar handling, where it wouldn't save
the toolbar after you changed it. I'm not sure if that bug is still in
the shipping 3.1 version. (The only workaround I found was to put a
separator item at the beginning and the end of the toolbar. Then it
seemed to save OK.)
HTH
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