Where do I find the "Collapsible Panel" Cocoa control in Interface Builder?

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to add a collapsible panel to a panel I added in the Interface Builder, similar to the one found in Office 2008 and XCode itself.

This is the collapsible panel for those that don't know it:

Any idea how I can add this to my project? Google hasn't been of much help.

Answer 1

This is most often referred to as a "disclosure view" or "disclosure panel" and usually has to come with an intelligent container view (that grows/shrinks/scrolls correctly with multiple disclosure subviews). There is no such control as part of the API. Most developers roll their own while some use third-party open source.

The Omni Frameworks have one such control that works very well (including "tear-off" panels, etc., if I recall correctly). The drawback: it's a large framework and has a lot of other stuff in it as well.

InspectorKit is another. It's more focused (just the control itself and an IB plugin), but the last incarnation I tested did have a few UI issues with the Interface Builder plugin.

Answer 2

I've also written a framework for handling this: SFBInspectors