CustomButton

2.0.0

Customizable button for your macOS app
sindresorhus/CustomButton

What's New

2020-09-03T18:36:19Z

Breaking

  • Use continuous corner style on rounded buttons by default on macOS 10.15 and up (#5) 246fb08

CustomButton

Customizable button for your macOS app

It's a layer-based NSButton subclass that animates the styles and colors between normal and active (pressed) state.

This package is used in production by Gifski.

Requirements

  • macOS 10.12+
  • Xcode 11.4+
  • Swift 5.2+

Install

Add https://github.com/sindresorhus/CustomButton in the “Swift Package Manager” tab in Xcode.

Usage

See the source for what properties you can change and play with it in the example app. By default, it has no style.

import Cocoa
import CustomButton

@NSApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
	@IBOutlet weak var window: NSWindow!

	func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ notification: Notification) {
		let button = CustomButton()
		button.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
		button.title = "CustomButton"
		button.activeBackgroundColor = .systemPink
		button.borderWidth = 1
		button.borderColor = .systemPink
		button.cornerRadius = 5
		button.textColor = .systemPink
		button.activeTextColor = .white

		let contentView = window.contentView!
		contentView.addSubview(button)

		NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
			button.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: contentView.centerXAnchor),
			button.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: contentView.centerYAnchor),
			button.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 100),
			button.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 30)
		])
	}
}

The button can also be edited in Interface Builder, but Xcode is very buggy with @IBDesignable, so I would recommend using it only programmatically for now.

FAQ

Can you support Carthage and CocoaPods?

No, but you can still use Swift Package Manager for this package even though you mainly use Carthage or CocoaPods.

Won't SwiftUI make this moot?

SwiftUI does indeed make it much easier to create custom-looking buttons, but SwiftUI is still immature and most companies will not be able to require macOS 10.15 for a long time. So this package will still be useful for multiple years to come.

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Last updated: Fri Sep 13 2024 12:26:44 GMT-0900 (Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time)