The MBS Xojo MacCocoa Plugin

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Cocoa classes: AppleRemote, StatusItem, SpeechSynthesizer and SpeechRecognizer, Save/OpenPanel, PDFKit, SpellChecking and Addressbook.

This plugin is included in our plugin archive:

MBS MacCocoa Plugin.pdf

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This plugin requires other plugin installed to build applications:

• MBS Main Plugin
• MBS MacBase Plugin

This plugin part is included if you buy a Complete set license.

Our MacCocoa Plugin is included in OmegaBundle 2022

The Mac Cocoa plugin is so big, that we split it in four parts: MacCocoa, MacBase, MacControls and MacExtras.

The documentation for MBS MacCocoa Plugin:

show all functions and classes in this plugin.

• NSApplication
• NSDrag
• NSControl
• NSCell
• NSText
• NSParagraphStyle
• NSPrint
• NSApplicationDelegate
• NSWindowDelegate
• NSTabView
• NSHelpManager
• NSSound
• NSDirectoryEnumerator
• NSPanel
• NSCursor
• NSGraphics
• NSSpeech
• NSSpellChecker
• NSStatusItem
• NSWorkspace
• NSProcessInfo
• NSURLRequestCertificateFilter
• NSURLConnectionFilter
• NSTimer
• NSAppleScript
• ABAddressbook
• IMService

Examples for this plugin:

• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Add address to person
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Add person
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Add Vcard to Addressbook
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Addressbook Constants
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Addressbook Notifications
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Addressbook Pick one address
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Addressbook Picker
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Change my name
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Easy search
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Edit Distance values
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Extract Vcard
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Group members
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/GroupsForAccounts Test
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/List Addresses
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/List of People with images
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Properties of ABPerson
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Search Person
• /MacCocoa/Addressbook/Show my entry
• /MacCocoa/AppleScript/AppleScript Editor Cocoa
• /MacCocoa/AppleScript/DeterminePermissionToAutomateTarget
• /MacCocoa/AppleScript/NSAppleScriptMBS query Mail mailboxes
• /MacCocoa/AppleScript/NSAppleScriptMBS with properties
• /MacCocoa/Apply Quartz Filters to PDF
• /MacCocoa/Background view over titlebar
• /MacCocoa/ClipboardSaver
• /MacCocoa/Core Animation
• /MacCocoa/Custom NSViewControl Drag
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn Image
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn UDF
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn with Events
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn with Events and Notification
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn with File Events
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn with links
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn with Track Events
• /MacCocoa/DiscRecording/DataBurn with Track Events with ISRC and MCN
• /MacCocoa/Dock Menu/Dock menu with ApplicationDelegate
• /MacCocoa/Dock Menu/Dock menu with submenu with ApplicationDelegate
• /MacCocoa/DockMeter/Dock Meter
• /MacCocoa/Drag Promise Receiver
• /MacCocoa/Drop file to see icon parts
• /MacCocoa/Dynamic FileOpenDialog
• /MacCocoa/EasyStatusItem
• /MacCocoa/Font Family Members
• /MacCocoa/Font PopupMenu in Cocoa
• /MacCocoa/Fonts and Font Families
• /MacCocoa/Fullsize Window Content
• /MacCocoa/Fun with ImageWell and NSImageViewMBS
• /MacCocoa/Fun with TabPanel
• /MacCocoa/Hide Window Buttons
• /MacCocoa/HUDObjects/HUDControls
• /MacCocoa/InstantMessage
• /MacCocoa/KeyValueObserver
• /MacCocoa/LevelIndicator
• /MacCocoa/Lion Persistence
• /MacCocoa/Menu Test
• /MacCocoa/MethodDraw SVG Editor/MethodDraw
• /MacCocoa/Mouse Click & Keyboard Events
• /MacCocoa/mouseDidMoveOverElement Test
• /MacCocoa/MovableByBackground
• /MacCocoa/Notifications/NSDistributedNotificationCenterMBS receiver
• /MacCocoa/Notifications/NSDistributedNotificationCenterMBS sender
• /MacCocoa/Notifications/NSWorkspaceMBS notification receiver
• /MacCocoa/NSAlert Test
• /MacCocoa/NSAnimation test
• /MacCocoa/NSAppleEventHandlerMBS test
• /MacCocoa/NSColor and Colorspaces
• /MacCocoa/NSColorPanel Test
• /MacCocoa/NSCursor Test
• /MacCocoa/NSDirectoryEnumeratorMBS paths on desktop
• /MacCocoa/NSFileManager with authorization
• /MacCocoa/NSFontPanel
• /MacCocoa/NSImage EPS Test/NSImage EPS Test
• /MacCocoa/NSImage/NSImageMBS multithreading
• /MacCocoa/NSImage/Open Image using NSImage
• /MacCocoa/NSImage/Threaded image load
• /MacCocoa/NSLocale test
• /MacCocoa/NSOperation
• /MacCocoa/NSProcessInfo Example
• /MacCocoa/NSSavePanel
• /MacCocoa/NSSavePanelObserver
• /MacCocoa/NSSearchField control with menu
• /MacCocoa/NSSegmentedControl
• /MacCocoa/NSSpeechSynthesizer Progress
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Display current IP
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Display current iTunes Song
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Logintime in menubar
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Name in menu bar
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/StatusItem
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Statusitem Counter
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/StatusItem easy
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/StatusItem with CarbonEvents
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/StatusItem with Image in menu
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/StatusItem with NSView
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/StatusItem with PDF Icon
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Statusitem with PopOver
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Statusitem with PopOver using Container
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Statusitem with slider in menubar
• /MacCocoa/NSStatusItem/Statusitem with textfield in menubar
• /MacCocoa/NSTask/NSTask
• /MacCocoa/NSTask/NSTask live output
• /MacCocoa/NSTask/NSTask traceroute
• /MacCocoa/NSTask/NSTask with Arguments
• /MacCocoa/NSTextFinder and find bar
• /MacCocoa/NSTimer Test
• /MacCocoa/NSURL Free Disk Space
• /MacCocoa/NSURLConnection test
• /MacCocoa/NSURLConnectionFilter test
• /MacCocoa/NSURLRequestCertificateFilterMBS Test
• /MacCocoa/NSUserDefaults
• /MacCocoa/NSUserDefaultsDidChangeNotification Test
• /MacCocoa/NSView custom focus ring
• /MacCocoa/NSWindow HUD Test
• /MacCocoa/NSWindow HUD with RB window
• /MacCocoa/NSWindow transparent
• /MacCocoa/NSWindowDelegateMBS test
• /MacCocoa/NSWorkSpace DropFile to see icon parts
• /MacCocoa/NSWorkSpace Icon Images
• /MacCocoa/NSWorkSpace Notifications
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/Add Annotations to PDF
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/Add Outlines with Actions to PDF
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/Add Outlines with Destinations to PDF
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/Create Page
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/Create Page with custom stamp annotation
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/Create Page with Page
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/PDFKit Print PDF
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/PDFView/PDFView
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/PDFView/PDFView customized
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/PDFView/PDFView customized with picture overlay
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/PDFView/PDFView overlay/PDFView overlay
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/PDFView/PDFView overlay/PDFViewControl overlay
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/Render PDFPage
• /MacCocoa/PDFKit/Search and Highlight/Search and Highlight
• /MacCocoa/Popupmenu Icons for Cocoa
• /MacCocoa/Print RTF via NSGraphics
• /MacCocoa/Printing/NSPrintOperation
• /MacCocoa/Printing/Print to PDF
• /MacCocoa/Printing/Printer Selection in Cocoa
• /MacCocoa/Process Activity
• /MacCocoa/readToEndOfFileInBackgroundAndNotify Test
• /MacCocoa/RTF Printing
• /MacCocoa/Run Javascript Mac
• /MacCocoa/Save and restore State 2
• /MacCocoa/SelTextBackColor
• /MacCocoa/Service in Cocoa/TestService
• /MacCocoa/SetFrame Animated
• /MacCocoa/SFPasswordAssistantMBS
• /MacCocoa/Shadow Test
• /MacCocoa/Slide Views Animation
• /MacCocoa/Speech/NSSpeechRecognizer
• /MacCocoa/Speech/NSSpeechSynthesizer
• /MacCocoa/Speech/NSSpeechSynthesizer Progress
• /MacCocoa/Spellcheck/NSSpellChecker Grammar
• /MacCocoa/Spellcheck/SpellCheck like TextEdit
• /MacCocoa/Spellcheck/SpellCheck RB
• /MacCocoa/Text in titlebar
• /MacCocoa/Text List
• /MacCocoa/TextHeight calculation
• /MacCocoa/Timer Benchmark
• /MacCocoa/Unified Bars Example
• /MacCocoa/utility window style
• /MacCocoa/View in Titlebar
• /MacCocoa/WebViewer save as RTF with images
• /MacCocoa/Window Colorspace
• /MacCocoa/Window titleVisibility

This plugin needs other plugins installed:

• MBS Main Plugin
• MBS MacBase Plugin

Blog Entries

• Styled Text for Labels in your Xojo iOS app
• MBS Xojo / Real Studio plug-ins version 16.2
• Tip of the day: Adding links to Textarea on OS X
• New for Mac OS X 10.10 in MBS Xojo Plugins
• Print to PDF File on Mac OS X with Xojo
• MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 13.5pr8
• MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 13.4pr7
• MonkeyBread Software Releases the MBS Real Studio plug-ins in version 12.2
• MBS Releases the MBS Real Studio plug-ins in version 12.0
• Addressbook classes updated

Videos

• MBS Xojo Plugins 21.1
• Presentation from Munich conference about MBS Plugins.
• XDC Anywhere - MBS Xojo Plugins
• Presentation from Xojo Developer Conference 2019 in Miami.
• MBS Xojo Videos - MBS Xojo Plugin, June 2021 News

Xojo Developer Magazine

• 20.3, page 10: News
• 19.5, page 50: A Xojo Business Solutions Platform, Planning and building out a Web-first application platform using Xojo by Steve Pardoe
• 17.3, page 9: News
• 16.6, page 9: News
• 15.6, page 8: News
• 13.2, page 9: News
• 13.1, page 10: News
• 12.2, page 29: Xojo around the World, Meeting Xojo Developers in New Zealand by Markus Winter
• 12.1, page 10: News
• 10.3, page 11: News

The documentation for MBS MacControls Plugin:

show all functions and classes in this plugin.

• PDFKit
• PDFKitAnnotation
• PDFKitView
• NSLevelIndicator
• CustomNSSearchField
• CustomNSTextField
• CustomPDFView
• NSTokenField
• CustomNSTokenField
• CustomNSView
• NSComboBox
• NSStepper
• NSScrollView
• NSTableView
• NSOutlineView
• NSTableControl
• ABAddressbookControls
• NSProgressIndicator
• NSBox
• NSDatePicker
• NSSlider
• NSImageView
• NSButton
• NSToolbar
• HTMLViewer
• DiscRecording
• HTMLViewerWeb
• HTMLViewerDelegate
• HTMLViewerDOM
• HTMLViewerDOMHTML
• WebScriptObject
• QuartzFilter
• NSHTTPCookie
• HTMLViewerPrint
• HTMLViewerImage
• QCView
• NSPopover
• CanvasGestures
• NSDragPatch
• WindowLion
• NSCollectionView

Examples for this plugin:

• /MacControls/Autohide Scrollbar for TextArea
• /MacControls/Canvas Gestures
• /MacControls/Cocoa Controls
• /MacControls/ContainerControl List
• /MacControls/Custom NSView Drag
• /MacControls/Custom NSView Drop
• /MacControls/Custom NSView without CocoaControl
• /MacControls/CustomNSView to capture gestures
• /MacControls/DatePicker
• /MacControls/DatePicker control
• /MacControls/Draw full red on screen
• /MacControls/HUDPopupMenu
• /MacControls/Label with Color
• /MacControls/Line wrap in TextArea
• /MacControls/Listbox and TableView Demos/ListboxTV drop-in/Flat Only/ListBoxTV Database with DataSource
• /MacControls/Listbox and TableView Demos/ListboxTV drop-in/Flat Only/ListBoxTV Simple Demo with DataSource
• /MacControls/Listbox and TableView Demos/ListboxTV drop-in/Flat Only/ListBoxTV TableView
• /MacControls/Listbox and TableView Demos/ListboxTV drop-in/Flat Only/ListboxTV with ContainerControl Cells
• /MacControls/Listbox and TableView Demos/ListboxTV drop-in/Hierarchical & Flat/ListBoxTV OutlineView
• /MacControls/Listbox and TableView Demos/NSOutlineView/Disk Browser
• /MacControls/Listbox and TableView Demos/NSOutlineView/OutlineControl
• /MacControls/Listbox Row Colors
• /MacControls/NSButton
• /MacControls/NSButton Control Array
• /MacControls/NSButtonControl tests/NSButtonControl1
• /MacControls/NSButtonControl tests/NSButtonControl2
• /MacControls/NSCollectionView Test
• /MacControls/NSPathControl
• /MacControls/NSPrintOperation HTMLViewer
• /MacControls/NSTextField Focus on KeyDown
• /MacControls/NSTextFinder and find bar
• /MacControls/NSTextView Selection
• /MacControls/NSTextView show invisible characters
• /MacControls/NSTextView Unlimited Tab
• /MacControls/Outline View Test
• /MacControls/PDFViewControlMBS Test
• /MacControls/PeoplePickerView
• /MacControls/PopupMenu in Cocoa
• /MacControls/Popupmenu Retina Icons
• /MacControls/Quartz Composer Control/QCView
• /MacControls/Quartz Composer Control/QCView Movie
• /MacControls/Quartz Composer Control/QCViewControl
• /MacControls/Search Field/CustomSearchField with menu
• /MacControls/Search Field/NSSearchField control
• /MacControls/Search Field/NSSearchFieldControl test
• /MacControls/Search Field/SearchField with menu
• /MacControls/TableControl
• /MacControls/TabPanel Enable
• /MacControls/TextArea Background Color
• /MacControls/Textarea Transparency
• /MacControls/TextArea with Link
• /MacControls/TextEdit MBS
• /MacControls/TextView advanced
• /MacControls/TextView with FindPanel
• /MacControls/TokenField/NSTokenFieldControl
• /MacControls/TokenField/TokenField with data class
• /MacControls/Toolbar/Toolbar add textfield
• /MacControls/Toolbar/Toolbar buttons/Toolbar buttons
• /MacControls/Toolbar/Toolbar customized
• /MacControls/Toolbar/Toolbar with retina Icons
• /MacControls/Tooltip
• /MacControls/Transparent Webview/Transparent WebView
• /MacControls/TransparentTextFields
• /MacControls/Use Scrollview with ContainerControl
• /MacControls/WebArchive Test
• /MacControls/WebUIDelegate

This plugin needs other plugins installed:

• MBS Main Plugin
• MBS MacBase Plugin
• MBS MacCocoa Plugin

Blog Entries

• MBS Xojo Plugins, version 22.1pr2
• MonkeyBread Software Releases the MBS Xojo Plugins in version 21.4
• MBS Xojo Plugins, version 21.1pr2
• MBS Xojo Plugins, version 20.6pr2
• Upgrading our HTMLViewer functions for Internet Explorer
• MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 15.4pr3
• Please don't call constructors outside new or constructor
• MBS Real Studio Plugins, version 13.1pr11
• MBS Real Studio Plugins, version 13.0fc1
• MBS REALbasic Plugins, version 10.6pr4

Videos

• MBS Xojo Plugins 21.1
• Presentation from Munich conference about MBS Plugins.
• Presentation from London conference about MBS Plugins.
• Presentation from Xojo Developer Conference 2019 in Miami.

Xojo Developer Magazine

• 7.6, page 40: Drag-n-Drop, Supporting dragging and dropping in your app by Marc Zeedar
• 6.4, page 8: HelpLogic 1.5 by Dave Mancuso
• 6.1, page 10: TaskTime 4.3.7 by Dave Mancuso
• 4.1, page 41: Printing Rotated Text, Part 2, Using declares to draw rotated text on Windows by Christian Schmitz
• 19.6, page 10: News
• 17.5, page 6: Where Did Summer Go?, Thoughts from the Publisher by Marc Zeedar
• 16.4, page 10: News
• 15.5, page 11: News
• 15.3, page 8: News
• 13.4, page 22: WWDC 2015, What OS X "El Capitan" will mean to Xojo developers by Sam Rowlands

The documentation for MBS MacBase Plugin:

show all functions and classes in this plugin.

• NSPasteBoard
• NSView
• NSScreen
• NSImage
• NSAttributedString
• NSColor
• NSURL
• NSURLRequest
• NSFont
• NSCharacterSet
• NSUserDefaults
• NSCoder
• NSNotification
• NSLocale
• NSBundle
• NSKeyValueObserving
• NSDate
• NSUUID
• NSIndexSet

Examples for this plugin:

• /MacBase/Cocoa Menu Modification
• /MacBase/ConvertToSRGB
• /MacBase/Custom NSWindows/NSWindow like AppStore/AppStore NSWindow
• /MacBase/Custom NSWindows/NSWindow with Pattern/Pattern NSWindow
• /MacBase/NSAttributedString document attributes
• /MacBase/NSColor Matching
• /MacBase/NSColorSampler
• /MacBase/NSDictionary Conversion Test
• /MacBase/NSFileHandle async reading
• /MacBase/NSFont fonts
• /MacBase/NSGraphicsMBS draw to view
• /MacBase/NSImage Console
• /MacBase/NSImage Console with Mask
• /MacBase/NSImage GUI
• /MacBase/NSImage GUI with Mask
• /MacBase/NSProgressIndicator with filter
• /MacBase/NSScreen
• /MacBase/NSURL async icon loading
• /MacBase/NSURL Volume Details
• /MacBase/NSURLConnection test
• /MacBase/NSURLDownload/NSURLDownload Example
• /MacBase/NSURLDownload/NSURLDownload test

This plugin needs other plugins installed:

• MBS Main Plugin

Blog Entries

• MBS Xojo Plugins, version 22.1pr3
• MBS Xojo Plugins, version 21.6pr4
• MBS Xojo Plugins, version 20.3pr5
• MBS Xojo Plugins, version 17.5pr4
• MBS Xojo Plugins, version 17.1pr3
• Apply fonts to font PopupMenu
• MBS Real Studio Plugins, version 13.1pr11
• MBS Real Studio Plugins, version 12.3pr7
• MBS Real Studio Plugins, version 12.3pr4
• MBS Real Studio Plugins, version 12.2fc1

Videos

• Presentation from Xojo Developer Conference 2019 in Miami.
• Apple MapView In Xojo

Xojo Developer Magazine

• 7.6, page 6: Thoughts from the Publisher, Seven Years and 2100+ Pages by Marc Zeedar
• 20.1, page 10: News
• 19.6, page 31: Creating Memorable Passwords with Xojo, Sometimes you need a password you can actually remember by Marc Zeedar
• 19.1, page 9: News
• 18.4, page 9: News
• 17.6, page 78: Designing For Error Tolerance, Making error-tolerance part of the MVC paradigm by JC Cruz
• 17.5, page 29: Numbers Please! (Part 4), A numbers-only field by Markus Winter
• 17.1, page 39: Beyond JSON, Develop APIs That Generate Barcodes, Charts, and More by Tim Dietrich
• 16.6, page 9: News
• 12.4, page 10: News

Content of MacCocoa Plugin, MacBase Plugin and MacControls Plugin.