EinhugurMacOSBridge.NSAlert

A modal dialog or sheet attached to a document window.

The methods of the NSAlert class allow you to specify alert level, alert text, button titles, and a custom icon should you require it.

See also our free X-Platform-Alert on Github which uses the NSAlert on MacOS Systems but gives cross platform experience:
https://github.com/einhugur/X-Platform-Alert

EinhugurCoreBridge.NSObject
NSAlert

class EinhugurMacOSBridge.NSAlert

Constructors

NSAlert

Default constructor with no parameters.

Properties

AccessoryView	Sets or gets the alert’s accessory view.
AlertStyle	Indicates the alert’s severity level.
Buttons	The array of response buttons for the alert.
ClassName (Inherited) (desktop - console)	Returns the name of the Cocoa class under the hood as String.
Handle (Inherited)	Returns Integer handle to the native NSObject structure.
Icon	The custom icon displayed in the alert.
InformativeText	The alert’s informative text.
MessageText	The alert’s message text or title.
ShowsSuppressionButton	Specifies whether the alert includes a suppression checkbox, which you can employ to allow a user to opt out of seeing the alert again.
SuppressionButton	The alert’s suppression checkbox.

Methods

AddButtonWithTitle	Adds a button with a given title to the alert.
BeginSheetModalForWindow	Runs the alert modally as a sheet attached to the specified window. This variation takes new style Xojo DesktopWindow.
BeginSheetModalForWindow	Runs the alert modally as a sheet attached to the specified window. This variation takes old style Xojo Window.
shared Cast	Does deep cast on incoming NSObject to NSAlert
Release (Inherited)	Releases the NSObject.
Retain (Inherited)	Retains the NSObject
RunModal	Runs the alert as an app-modal dialog and returns the constant that identifies the button clicked.

Delegates

AlertCompletionDelegate

Delegate to get callback when showing the NSAlert modal only to one window.

Enumerations

StyleValues

Enum representing styles for NSAlert.

Constants

Version = 5.0 (Inherited)

Examples

using EinhugurMacOSBridge

var alert as NSAlert = new NSAlert()

alert.MessageText = "Some alert"
alert.InformativeText = "This is a test alert"

call alert.AddButtonWithTitle("Do Something")

// Putting destructive action, makes the button have additional warning indicator on Big Sur
alert.AddButtonWithTitle("Delete something").HasDestructiveAction = true
call alert.AddButtonWithTitle("Cancel")

var result as Integer = alert.RunModal()

select case result
   case 1000
    // React to the Do something command

   case 1001
    // React to the Delete something command

   case 1002
    // React to the Cancel command

end select

Supported Platforms:

macOS Intel 64 bit

macOS Apple Silicon

Unsupported Platforms:

Windows 32 bit

Windows 64 bit

Windows ARM 64 bit

Linux 32 bit

Linux 64 bit

Linux ARM 32 bit

Linux ARM 64 bit

EinhugurMacOSBridge.NSAlert Class (desktop)