Popover from NSToolbarItem in Mac Catalyst app

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DaleOne OP

Created Feb ’22

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Hi,

Inside a Mac Catalyst app, I need to display a popover starting from an NSToolbarItem contained inside the app toolbar (like the Apple Maps Mac app does, see below image).

In order to do that, when I press the button I need to find the toolbar item view and use it as popover anchor.

How can I find the view or frame of an NSToolbarItem on Mac Catalyst?

A property that could help me is the NSToolbarItem "view" property (NSView), but that property has been marked has unavailable in Mac Catalyst.

Any idea?

Thank you

Popover from toolbar.png

Answered by Nik Bhatt in 779659022

Popovers can be applied to Toolbar items on Ventura and later. There is a new API for that - see UIPopoverPresentationController

// Accepts UIBarButtonItem as well as NSToolbarItem in Catalyst.
@available(iOS 16.0, *)
open var sourceItem: UIPopoverPresentationControllerSourceItem?

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Answer 1

Dejal OP

Jan ’24

Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm trying to do the same thing.

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Answer 2

DaleOne OP

Jan ’24

Unfortunately not.

What I ended up doing was displaying the popover at specific fixed coordinates to make it look like the origin is the button item in the toolbar. It's not ideal, but it does the job.

Here is the result:

Screenshot 2024-01-27 alle 11.18.34.png

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Answer 3

Nik Bhatt OP

Feb ’24

Accepted Answer

Popovers can be applied to Toolbar items on Ventura and later. There is a new API for that - see UIPopoverPresentationController

// Accepts UIBarButtonItem as well as NSToolbarItem in Catalyst.
@available(iOS 16.0, *)
open var sourceItem: UIPopoverPresentationControllerSourceItem?

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