Re: Hiding tab view items

2010-01-28 Thread BareFeet
m atIndex:3]; } else if (!tabViewItemShouldShow && tabViewItemDoesShow) { [tabView removeTabViewItem:retainedTabViewItem]; } } // other code omitted @end ---- From: BareFeet Date: 21 October 2009 6:02:21 PM AEDT To: Cocoa Dev Subject: Re: Hid

Re: Hiding tab view items

2009-10-21 Thread I. Savant
On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:03 AM, BareFeet wrote: [tabView removeTabViewItem:oldItem] But isn't that going to destroy the tab item, the view it contains, and everything in that view? Can I get it back when that tab view item is valid again, or do I have to programmatically create all the

Re: Hiding tab view items

2009-10-21 Thread BareFeet
Thanks for the reply, Kyle. [tabView removeTabViewItem:oldItem] But isn't that going to destroy the tab item, the view it contains, and everything in that view? Can I get it back when that tab view item is valid again, or do I have to programmatically create all the objects? Thanks,

Re: Hiding tab view items

2009-10-21 Thread Nathan Day
In general hiding bit of you interface depending on the state/ selection of you app is considered bad because it can confuse the user, if you disable elements then you are tell the user that the element is not available for the current state/selection etc., if you you hide elements then the

Re: Hiding tab view items

2009-10-21 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:02 AM, BareFeet wrote: > This seems like a common requirement, so I keep thinking I must be missing > something simple. Nope. You're going to need to write code. The "hardest" part is replacing the tab view items; this really isn't that difficult: // Typed in Mail -

Re: Hiding tab view items

2009-10-21 Thread BareFeet
This seems like a common requirement, so I keep thinking I must be missing something simple. For an example of similar functionality, look at Disk Utility. The user can navigate through a tree of nested disks and partition nodes in the left view. The right view shows a tab view that changes

Re: Hiding tab view items

2009-10-18 Thread BareFeet
there a different roots to success Thanks for the input. a) roll your own Tabs instead of Segmented cell in combination with a tabless NSTabView Do you mean use a segmented control with a tabless NSTabView, where each segmented cell is linked to a tab view? I have set that up, but c

Re: Hiding tab view items

2009-10-12 Thread Volker in Lists
Hi, there a different roots to success a) roll your own Tabs instead of Segmented cell in combination with a tabless NSTabView b) Add/remove tab items on demand Both are fairly easy to achieve with some pitfalls like view retains and such. I am using the b) route for something similar

Hiding tab view items

2009-10-12 Thread BareFeet
Hi all, I have a hierarchical list of objects, like the typical iTunes or XCode left pane. When the user selects a node in this hierarchy, I display detail of that node in the pane on the right. This right pane is divided into tab view items. Only some of the tab view items are relevant t