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Knowing when NSPopoverTouchBarItem will show its collapsed view

I have an NSPopoverTouchBarItem in my Touch Bar, created in Interface Builder.

The popover has a custom NSView inside it, and want to load data in it only when the view is activated, but I can't find any way to recognize when the contained NSTouchBar or NSView becomes visible.

According to docs, NSTouchBarDelegate does not have any delegate methods for the view appearing, either.

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Which class should I subclass, or should I be monitoring viewWillDraw on my custom NSView and set up some hacky scheme?

Solution

  • The docs were not too clear, but subclassing NSPopoverTouchBarItem gives you -(void)showPopover:(id)sender and -(void)dismissPopover:(id)sender.

    You can then define a delegate method to tell the parent class that this popover did show.

    -(void)showPopover:(id)sender {
    [super showPopover:sender];
    [self.delegate touchPopoverDidShow];
}