Content of drawers limited?

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#1

It took me three days, but I finally figured out how to make a drawer open and close. Yay.

I then tried to put an Address Book framework into the drawer (the whole point of this exercise), and my app crashed.

So, I tried to put the Address Book framework into the parent window. The app crashed again.

Of course, putting the framework into a normal window is a breeze, and no problems.

So, my question is, “Is the content of drawers limited?” If not, is there some kind of thing/step that I’m missing?

#2

I tried to add the Address Book framework to the AS Studio example app called “Drawer” in both places (main window and panel). It also crashed both times.

#3

Would you post your code to show a drawer? You’d save me three days! :slight_smile:

#4

You can use code to open and close a drawer, or you can simply use a connection from a button in IB to the “toggle:” action of the drawer. As to the original question, you’re confusing some things here. The object in IB is an NSPeoplePickerView, not a framework. To actually use this object in your project, you need to manually add the AddressBook.framework (frameworks include the definitions & code, images, interface, etc. for using an object) to your project. To do this, Control-Click on the “Linked Frameworks” group in Xcode and select “Existing Frameworks…”, then navigate to “System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework” and add this to your project. Then you can use the people picker (though, you have to get a little creative to use this with AppleScript; hint: use Obj-C). To see all of this, take a look at at my demo project:

http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/dist/TogglePeoplePickerDrawer.zip (Note: requires Xcode 2.1+)

Jon