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Excellent series. Iām a little confused about a couple of items. First, I canāt seem to increase the vertical size of the eggTimer window and I canāt seem to get the eggImage to appear. Everything else in Part 2 is working as expected down to the Menu section. Any thoughts?
Had to make 2 changes to compile in Swift 4:
in ViewController, imageToDisplay func:
- return NSImage(named: imageName)
+ return NSImage.init(named: NSImage.Name(imageName))
in ViewController, configureButtonsAndMenus func
- if let appDel = NSApplication.shared().delegate as? AppDelegate {
+ if let appDel = NSApplication.shared.delegate as? AppDelegate {
Got the app working ok, but the āTimerā menu items are all disabled. Still working on itā¦
The two issues may be related due to auto-layout.
Does the image appear in the storyboard? If not, have you added the assets to the project and selected the āstoppedā image for the NSImageView? If the āstoppedā image is not appearing, how about one of the percentage images - 0, 25, 50, 75or 100?
If the image is not appearing, the image view may not resize correctly so that might be where the vertical size constraint is coming from.
Alternatively, check the settings for the Window in the Window Controller and make sure you have not set a maximum contender size for the height.
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This was updated on Jun 14, 2021 by @robertomachorro, so reopening comments! :]