How to use NSToolBar in Xcode 6 and Storyboard?

Question

I\'ve been trying to build on a Cocoa app that uses Swift and Storyboard in Xcode 6, but how can I use NSToolbar there?

In Xcode 5 and xib, you can add

Answer 1

This helped me for the IBOutlet solution you are looking for: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27555237/3398062

Update (explanation)

I discovered this thread because I was trying to create a Circular Progress Indicator inside the toolbar and I didn't know how to animate it from the ViewController since the IBOutlet was declared inside a custom WindowController.

Finally, I found the post that I have added above which describes how to access to IBOutlets from other classes.

In essence what I have done is the following:

• Create a custom NSWindowController subclass (CustomWindowController) for the Window Controller so I can add the IBOutlet for the ProgressIndicator:

Code Example:

@interface CustomWindowController : NSWindowController

@property (weak) IBOutlet NSProgressIndicator *progressIndicator;

@end

• Then in the ViewController class, in the method I want to use to update the state of the Progress Indicator, I create and object of the custom Window Controller.

Code Example:

CustomWindowController *customWindowController = self.view.window.windowController;`

• Finally, to change the state of the Progress Indicator there is only to call the method from the created custom object.

Code Example:

[customWindowController.progressIndicator startAnimation:sender];

or

[customWindowController.progressIndicator stopAnimation:sender];