Is there a Reporter.xctemplate with conditionalContextMenus through xib？

Scripting
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The first time I tried to make a plug-in with Xcode. Is there a Reporter.xctemplate with conditionalContextMenus throung xib？

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The templates are only implement a minimal API. To see what’s possible, check the corresponding Protocol header (e.g. GlyphsToolEventProtocol.h) (you should be able to open the file Command+Control click the file name in the import statement).

The conditionalContextMenus method is part of the python plugin API. The objectiveC equivalent is - (void)addMenuItemsForEvent:(NSEvent *)theEvent toMenu:(NSMenu *)theMenu;. If you know the python API, you can look into the plugin wrapper to learn about the objectiveC API.

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I found this. I’m stuck in loadNib now，I not found how to load Nib,It can’t work I use

self = [super initWithNibName:@"myView" bundle:[NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]]];

or

- (id)init 
{
    self = [super init];
    [NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"myView" owner:self error:nil];
    return self;
}
4

What kind of plugin are you doing?

5

I am working on a reporter plugin and I want to add a view from the XIB I defined in the right-click menu.

6

For the first example to work your class needs to be inheriting from NSViewController. The second should work regardless.

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Did I miss something? A right-click with the mouse cant show the view that I customized Xib (NSView) in the context menu.
It add the view in python like

# Load .nib file from package
self.loadNib("SliderView", __file__)

# Add the view to the context menu
self.generalContextMenus = [
	{"view": self.sliderMenuView}
		]
8

Can you give me a simple example? I haven’t been able to correctly display the right-click menu I customized with Xib for a whole day. :sweat:

9

Where is you problem?
Does the view load correctly?
To get the view into the menu, you assign it to the .view property of the menu item:

NSMenuItem *item = [NSMenuItem new];
item.title = @"my item"; // the title is not shown but I would set it anyway.
item.view = self.view;
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It didn’t show my NSView of xib using this method，it only show the title

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-(void)addMenuItemsForEvent:(NSEvent *)theEvent toMenu:(NSMenu *)theMenu{
    NSMenuItem *item = [NSMenuItem new];
    item.title = @"my item"; // the title is not shown but I would set it anyway.
    item.view = self.thisView;
    [theMenu addItem:item];
}

Am I putting it in the wrong place or missing something?

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Have you connected the “thisView” with the view in the .xib? self.thisView is most likely not that at this point.

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Do you mean this place？
image
I’m connected here.

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I sent a simple example. Can you help me see what the problem is? I’m really racking my brains.

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You are not calling the .nib loading code anywhere?
You can do it like this:

-(void)addMenuItemsForEvent:(NSEvent *)theEvent toMenu:(NSMenu *)theMenu {
	if (!self.thisView) {
		[NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"View" owner:self error:nil];
	}
	NSMenuItem *item = [NSMenuItem new];
	item.title = @"my item"; // the title is not shown but I would set it anyway.
	item.view = self.thisView;
	[theMenu addItem:item];
}
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It’ true!Thanks so much!
I called the .nib loading code in the init,and it not work :sweat_smile:

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By the way, I want to ask whether the plug-in using OC can print NSLog into the macro panel, which is the same as the print of Python

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That can be done like this:

[[NSApp delegate] performSelector:@selector(printToMacro:) withObject:@"hello world"];

You can add a fake header:

@interface NSObject (private)
- (void)printToMacro:(NSString *)string;
@end

[[NSApp delegate] printToMacro:@"hello world"];
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