Toolbar Mac XCode-style

[TomQv]

Hi Curtis, I'm wondering, if it might be possible to have a toolbar in Mac similar to how it looks in XCode.
Currently we can only have one toolbar in the main-window, but for some use-cases it would be useful to have these nice and slim toolbars like XCode has it even in sub-views in addition to the main-toolbar.
Tom

[cwensley]

You can do this currently with a style in your startup mac app, before running your application:

// In Xamarin.Mac:
Eto.Style.Add<Eto.Mac.Forms.FormHandler>("unified", h => h.Control.TitleVisibility = NSWindowTitleVisibility.Hidden);

// For MonoMac, since the TitleVisibility api hasn't been bound yet: 
Eto.Style.Add<Eto.Mac.Forms.FormHandler>("unified", h => {
    MonoMac.ObjCRuntime.Messaging.void_objc_msgSend_IntPtr(h.Control.Handle, MonoMac.ObjCRuntime.Selector.GetHandle("setTitleVisibility:"), (IntPtr)1);
});

then just set myWindow.Style = "unified" to any form you want to have a unified toolbar.

[TomQv]

ok, this looks much better. Seems like this Style-feature is very powerful.

btw. is there a way to add other controls to the toolbar, like e.g. a SearchBox?
Can I group some toolbar-buttons so that they are rendered without a gap in between?

Tom

[cwensley]

Hey Tom,

There's no way to put a search box on the toolbar just yet. This should be doable with a new CustomToolItem that I'd like to implement (issue #32). It's been outstanding for a while - I should really get to that. The more I hear of it bumps it up in priority though so I'll see if I can get to that soon (if no one else does).

As for grouping buttons on a toolbar, that will require a new control unless you want to implement your own custom platform control. However, this will probably appear on my priority list fairly soon as I'll be needing this type of control as well.

[harry-cpp]

Gtk 3 has something similar called HeaderBar:

[TomQv]

any news on this?
grouping buttons?
put a search box on the toolbar ?

[cwensley]

This issue itself appears to be resolved using the style supplied.

Grouping buttons is reported with #889
Search box on toolbar is reported with #32