Adding a Preferences UI

Sparkle 2

Add the updater to your preferences

  • Open up your preferences nib in Interface Builder.
  • Drag a generic Object (a blue cube) from the Library to your document.
  • Select this object in your document window, and under the Information tab of the inspector, set the class of the object to SPUStandardUpdaterController. This will instantiate your Sparkle updater object.

Enable automatic checking

  • Drag a check button from the Library to your document.
  • Set the title to something like “Automatically check for updates”.
  • Select the check button, and under the Bindings tab, select Value.
  • Check the Bind to: check button, choose SPUStandardUpdaterController from the popup, and set the Model Key Path to updater.automaticallyChecksForUpdates.

Update check interval

  • Drag a popup button from the Library to your document.
  • Set the titles of the menu items to e.g. “Hourly”, “Daily”, “Weekly”, “Monthly”.
  • Set the tags of the menu items to the corresponding times in seconds, e.g. 3600, 86400, 604800, 2629800.
  • Select the popup button, and under the Bindings tab, select Selected Tag.
  • Check the Bind to: check button, choose SPUStandardUpdaterController from the popup, and set the Model Key Path to updater.updateCheckInterval.
  • Select Enabled, check the Bind to: check button, choose SPUStandardUpdaterController from the popup, and set the Model Key Path to updater.automaticallyChecksForUpdates.

Other preferences

Follow directions similar to Enable automatic checking. to bind a check button to updater.sendsSystemProfile or updater.automaticallyDownloadsUpdates. See customization for details on the available keys.

Sparkle 1

Add the updater to your preferences

  • Open up your preferences nib in Interface Builder.
  • Drag a generic Object (a blue cube) from the Library to your document.
  • Select this object in your document window, and under the Information tab of the inspector, set the class of the object to SUUpdater. This will instantiate your Sparkle updater object.

Enable automatic checking

  • Drag a check button from the Library to your document.
  • Set the title to something like “Automatically check for updates”.
  • Select the check button, and under the Bindings tab, select Value.
  • Check the Bind to: check button, choose Updater from the popup, and set the Model Key Path to automaticallyChecksForUpdates.

Update check interval

  • Drag a popup button from the Library to your document.
  • Set the titles of the menu items to e.g. “Hourly”, “Daily”, “Weekly”, “Monthly”.
  • Set the tags of the menu items to the corresponding times in seconds, e.g. 3600, 86400, 604800, 2629800.
  • Select the popup button, and under the Bindings tab, select Selected Tag.
  • Check the Bind to: check button, choose Updater from the popup, and set the Model Key Path to updateCheckInterval.
  • Select Enabled, check the Bind to: check button, choose Updater from the popup, and set the Model Key Path to automaticallyChecksForUpdates.

Other preferences

Follow directions similar to Enable automatic checking. to bind a check button to sendsSystemProfile or automaticallyDownloadsUpdates. See customization for details on the available keys.

Preferences for non-app bundles

These directions do not work for non-app bundles, as the updater you add to the nib will be the sharedUpdater for the application bundle. To be able to bind to the updater for your bundle, you can add the following accessor to your preferences controller (the owner of the nib):

- (SUUpdater *)updater {
    return [SUUpdater updaterForBundle:[NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]]];
}

Then just bind the controls to the File’s Owner, and start the Model Key Path with updater., e.g. updater.automaticallyChecksForUpdates.

Watch out for preference caching

macOS caches plist files in ~/Library/Preferences, so don’t edit them directly. If you want to tweak these files for testing (e.g. change last update check date), use the defaults command.