Use combined titlebar + toolbar while preserving title visibility

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The System Preferences app feature a combined title bar and toolbar with vertically centered buttons and the title. I am trying to mimic this exactly in my app. I have been able to combine the title bar and toolbar using Interface Builder (on the NSWindow check Title Bar and Unified Title and Toolbar), but this does not center the content vertically. I discovered via this question you can simply set the window's titleVisibility to NSWindowTitleHidden which will vertically center the stoplight buttons. Unfortunately this of course hides the title. How can one vertically center content in the unified titlebar/toolbar and also show the window's title just like System Preferences - either in IB or programmatically?

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@DalmazioBrisinda Just posted the only solution I found – Jordan H Jul 09 '15 at 23:50 — Jordan H, Jul 09 '15 at 23:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '15 at 23:49

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I ended up setting titleVisibility to NSWindowTitleHidden and manually created an NSView that contains an NSTextField that mimics the standard title appearance, providing that to the window's addTitlebarAccessoryViewController method. Still would like to find a better solution to use the default title appearance, if possible.

answered Jul 09 '15 at 23:49

Jordan H

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Thanks @joey. I'll post a different solution shortly. – Dalmazio Jul 22 '15 at 00:08
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but this doesn't work for document apps cause document title has more native functionality – fnc12 Jan 01 '21 at 09:40

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '15 at 00:11

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I used WAYAppStoreWindow on GitHub to do this. I created a fork of the WAYWindow subproject to vertically centre the document title since this wasn't supported. This means any applied themes/appearances are honoured.

answered Jul 22 '15 at 00:11

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