Question

let me introduce. I’m an enthusiast programmer (not professional) with c, c++, java experience and now starting with Objective-C and Cocoa on MacOsx.

In my first program I would like to create two vertical-splitted views, having the left one (main) always-on and the right one to show/hide as per button press (its use will be for debugging output).

I’ve seen exactly what I want under Xcode 4.2 where we can Hide/Show navigator/debug/utilities. I’m looking for the “utilities” behavior, that’s exactly what I want. The usage of that vertical view is to output “debugging” text from my program, I’m thinking on using the NSTextView in a NSScrollView to simulate a “Console”. I know I can just use a Terminal or the Debug view of Xcode, and that’s what is working now. I need this just for learning how to do it and to improve my program.

I’ve google a lot and read similar request but I couldn’t find exactly how to do this one.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Luis

Answer 1

A very rough idea. Change the width of the view with setPosition:ofDividerAtIndex:
setPosition:(CGFloat)position ofDividerAtIndex:(NSInteger)dividerIndex

Declare a CGFloat splitterlength.

And Put this in applicationDidFinishLaunching.

    splitterlength  = splitView.bounds.size.width;
[splitView setPosition:splitterlength ofDividerAtIndex:0];

Then use this Action

     - (IBAction)moveSplitter:(id)sender {

    NSArray *splitterViews =splitView.subviews;
   CGFloat splitterCheckLength =[[splitterViews objectAtIndex:0]bounds].size.width;
    CGFloat openSplitter=splitterlength/2;

    if (splitterCheckLength ==openSplitter) {
      [splitView setPosition:splitterlength ofDividerAtIndex:0];
    }else {
        [splitView setPosition:openSplitter ofDividerAtIndex:0];
    }




}

Use what ever length you want.

Saying this though. I would use normal customViews and adjust them. That way I do not have to worry about the dragging of the splitter by the user.