macOS What is this Cocoa screen made of? Thanks!

[magda1986]

Hello,

I'm trying to find a way to nicely create buttons dynamically. The following image describes pretty well the result I'm aiming to obtain:

I've made the following with the interface builder:

Clicking the "List" button creates a NSMutableArray with the contents of the "test.txt" file. Good so far. Now I would like to create one button per entry in that array and make these appear like they do in the "tags application" I used as an example.
I'd like to write the following in objective-c: "please put the buttons side by side in the NSBox".

For the record, this is my best guess so far... nothing happens though

NSRect frame = {{0.0, 0.0}, {50.0, 20.0}};
NSButton *myButton = [[[NSButton alloc] initWithFrame: frame] autorelease];
[tagBox addSubview: myButton];
[myButton setTitle: @"OK"];

That's where I'm stuck and need your help!

Thanks for your time,
Mag.

 

[robbieduncan]

It looks like a NSTokenField

 

[Mac_Max]

Yup:

http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSTokenField
http://developer.apple.com/library/...s/NSTokenField_Class/Reference/Reference.html

 

[magda1986]

Thank you! It's what I needed!

Your answer allowed to find: "M3 Token Controller". It comes with a working example.

Have a good sunday,
Mag