Application Object
• Application Icon • Display Version • Display Name • Recent Items Menu • Dock Badges • Sudden termination • Automatic Windows menu • Apple About Box • Multiple files dropped onto App icon • Application is hidden or unhidden • Launch arguments • Reading properties from app's plist • Bounce icon in dock • Handling URL schemas
Apps that are running
• List of running applications • Current Application • Getting information • Interacting with
App Nap • Controlling App Nap
App Sandbox • Determining if the application is Sandboxed • Window Restoration • Recent Items Menu • Security-Scoped Bodgemarks • Launching included Applications • Interface to choose photos/videos • Using shared memory • Apple Script in a Sandboxed application
Apple Script • Apple Script in a Sandboxed application • Apple Script in NON-Sandboxed app • Execute shell commands with authorization
Controls • Using CoreAnimation • Precision scrolling • Scrolling inertia to provide a bounce back • Capturing contents as an image • Capturing contents as PDF • Setting a shadow on a control • Button ◦ Setting icons • Canvas ◦ Configuring Delegate ◦ Rotation gesture ◦ Magnify gesture ◦ Smart Magnify gesture ◦ A Swipe style gesture ◦ Adding animation ◦ Custom Focus Ring • Color Well ◦ Adding a Color Well ◦ Events ◦ Methods ◦ Properties • Image Well ◦ Removing the border ◦ Auto resizing images ◦ Setting a system image • Listbox ◦ Transparent background ◦ Drawing system images. ◦ Alternating row colors ◦ Invalidate row • Popup Menus ◦ Action menu ◦ Setting icons ◦ Setting the style ◦ Setting tool tips on items • Scrollbars ◦ Overlay "Style" Scrollbar ◦ Events ◦ Methods ◦ Properties ◦ Style options • ScrollView ◦ Adding a scrollView ◦ Using with a Canvas ◦ Using with a Listbox ◦ Selection Rect ◦ Methods ◦ Properties • Sliders ◦ Slider Style
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• Search field ◦ Adding a Search Field ◦ Events ◦ Properties ◦ searchActionOptions • Segmented Controls ◦ Setting icons ◦ Image scaling ◦ Selected Item Index • Text Areas ◦ Style controls ◦ Auto link handling ◦ Auto dash handling ◦ Auto Quote handling ◦ Auto text replacement ◦ Loading RTFD data ◦ Saving RTFD data ◦ Handling images • Visual Effect Views ◦ Adding to a window ◦ Adding to a canvas ◦ Function description ◦ Additional Functions ◦ NSVisualEffectMaterialValue ◦ NSVisualEffectViewBlendingModeValue
Email • Create a text based e-mail • Create a "Feedback" e-mail • Create an e-mail with a file attachment
Errors • Handling NSErrors • Reporting exceptions • Debugging a NSException • Finding crash reports
Files • File Icons • File icons from name • Finding an App by bundle identifier • Opening a file in a specific app • Creating a Symbolic Link • Creating a Hard Link • Creating a Bookmark file (Alias) • Sending to Trash/Bin • Revealing in the Finder • Getting display type from a file • Atomic file saving • Spotlight data • UTI information • Xattrs • Finder Tags
Fonts • System Font Name • System Font Sizes • Font Weights • Replicating older OSes • WYSIWYG font menu
Graphics • Clipping to a vector path • Theme colors • Possible colors • Tiling a texture • Dropshadows • Transparency Layers • Drawing system supplied icons • Gradients • Erasing content
Images • Different image objects • Drawing CGImages & NSImages • Converting between image objects • System supplied images • Image names • Loading images with CoreGraphics • Reading image meta data • Writing images & meta data. • Quickly getting the thumbnail from an image • Getting actual bytes of an image • ICNS, ICO or Tiff for multi-image retina assets • Creating a multi-image file • Creating a HEIC image file
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Menus • Setting icons • Alternative items • Recent Items Menu • Close All menu • Automatic Windows menu • Full Screen MenuItem • About this application
Notifications • Handling OS issued Notifications. • Notifications between Xojo Objects • User visible Notifications
Preferences system. • Supported Data Types • Saving Preferences • Reading Preferences • Saving & Restoring Window locations • Removing a Preference • Removing all preferences for an app
Property Lists • Reading plist files • Writing plist files • Reading plist data • Creating plist data
Save Dialog • Read this first • Adding a NSSavePanel to your app • Adding custom options
Shared Memory • Setting up with the parent/controller app • Accessing from the helper application
Sharing Services • Building a list of services • Sharing the users data • Handling the sharing delegate • Did the share fail or succeed? • Attaching to the window
System Information • OS Version • Testing OS Version • Testing OS functionality • Installed memory • Uptime • Computer is to enter or exit sleep • Disks are connected or removed • Responding to the system theme change. • How many active cores are available • Thermal state of the machine • Computer name
Toolbars • Controls on the Toolbar • Customizing the appearance • Using system icons User • Username • User's name • User's Language • Media Browser
Windows • Built-in animation • Customizing the appearance • Auto Tabbed Windows • Obscured from the users view • Moved screen • Entering Full Screen • Customizing the full screen experience • Exiting Full Screen • Started to move • About to Resize • Adjusting the location of sheet windows • App Store style window example • Adding a Visual Effect View to a window • Automatically restoring when app re-opens • Making a Pallet window that auto-reopens and recalls it's position
Zip Files • Creating Zip files • Extracting Zip Files • Exploring a Zip file • Reading a file inside a zip
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