Re: problem getting NSPopover to work

[Gregory Casamento]

Sebastian,

NSPopover needs some major re-writing.  I am going to get to this once I get done with the changes to NSBrowser.

GC

On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 4:24 PM Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying since two days, to create a NSPopover under a NSTextField, when I start typing, to show me list of items matching what I type.

However, whenever it tries to show the NSPopover, or more specifically when I assigng the ViewController to the popover.contentViewController, I get an NSInternalInconsistencyException.

2024-11-04 21:38:40.983 Test-PopoverTest[36432:7926294758536] Problem posting <GSNotification: 0x735c115d278> Name: NSApplicationDidFinishLaunchingNotification Object: <NSApplication: 0x736056cf0e8> Info: (null): <NSException: 0x735c1158a28> NAME:NSInternalInconsistencyException REASON:Could not load controller NSViewController INFO:(null)

Removing all the complexities, I ended up with this little test app here:
https://github.com/buzzdeee/Test-PopoverTest

Just a button, where the NSPopover should appear when the button is pressed.

When I comment out the last line in the applicationDidFinishLaunching: method:
self.popover.contentViewController = popoverContentVC;

then the Exception won't happen, but also the NSPopover not shown.
Do I have to subclass NSViewController and add something special to it? I'm out of ideas ;)

Any hint to make the NSPopover show up is highly appreciated.

thanks
Sebastian

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