Cocoa Interface

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This article applies to macOS only.

See also: Multiplatform Programming Guide

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Cocoa bindings

This interface uses the native support in Free Pascal for direct communication with Objective-C was added through the Objective Pascal dialect.

Cocoa FAQ

TButton looks too small!

If you design a button in another widgetset with Autosize=Off it might happen that the button looks too small in Cocoa, and a number of people complained about this, such as in these BTS reports: [1].

If you don't care about the button size, just set AutoSize=True. If you want to have a custom width for the button, but wants to allow the LCL to choose the right Height so that the button will look good in Cocoa, then the solution in this case is to set the following properties in the Object Inspector:

  • AutoSize=True
  • Constrains.MinWidth = Constrains.MaxWidth = your desired width.

Overlapping Widgets

Lazarus allows you to set the depth of different widgets, such that when two widgets overlap, the "closer" object blocks the view of the more "distant" object. You can do this at design time (right-click on object and click "Z-order") or at run time with functions like "BringToFront" and "SendToBack". Be aware that this may not always work with Cocoa. This is a 'feature' of Cocoa, as clipping is optimized for performance. Therefore, if you plan to compile your projects for Cocoa it is a good strategy to avoid overlapping widgets or to place them on different panels to provide explicit control of Z-order. For more details [2].

Roadmap

Located here: Roadmap#Status_of_features_on_each_widgetset