Components: macOS 11.6, iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), Xcode: Version 13.0 (13A233) Capabilities: User selected & Download folder files Read/Write Language Swift 5 Small App fragment ========= BEGIN ========= import Cocoa @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, NSComboBoxDelegate, NSOpenSavePanelDelegate {     let dialog = NSSavePanel()     @IBOutlet var window: NSWindow!     @IBOutlet weak var selectOutFileLabelOutlet: NSTextField!     @IBOutlet weak var selectFileCBOutlet : NSComboBox!     @IBOutlet weak var ouputFileNameOutlet: NSTextField!     @IBOutlet weak var browse4FileOutlet  : NSButton!     @IBOutlet weak var progressBarOutlet  : NSProgressIndicator!     @IBOutlet weak var convertButtonOutlet: NSButton!   @IBAction func convertButtonClicked(_ sender: Any) { // STUB     }     @IBAction func browseButtonClicked(_ sender: Any) {         dialog.title = "Choose output file"         dialog.showsResizeIndicator = true         dialog.showsHiddenFiles = true         dialog.canCreateDirectories    = true         dialog.allowedFileTypes = [".ear", ".mer", ".ven", ".mar", ".jup", ".sat", ".ura", ".nep", ".plu"]         dialog.allowsOtherFileTypes = true         dialog.treatsFilePackagesAsDirectories = true     let answer = dialog.runModal() // ERROR         if answer ==  NSApplication.ModalResponse.OK {             let results = dialog.url             // Do whatever you need with every selected file         print ( results!.path )         } else {             print ( "User clicked on 'Cancel'" )             return         }     }     var sourceFileName     : String = ""     var targetFileName     : String = ""     let resourcePathPrefix : String = "(Bundle.main.resourcePath!)/VSOP87-Files/"     var outputFilePath     : String = ""     func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) {         // Insert code here to initialize your application         dialog.delegate = self         selectFileCBOutlet.delegate = self         setupComboBox()     } } ==================== When the action: browseButtonClicked(_ sender: Any) is called all the properties of the "dialog" are set then after quite a wait (4 seconds or so) the following error is issued: === ERROR ========== `2021-10-03 15:24:17.110702-0700 ConvertVSOPToDataFile[4887:105883] -[NSSavePanel beginServicePanel]_block_invoke : Could not advance an Open/Save panel to run phase due to error: Error Domain=com.apple.ViewBridge Code=16 "(null)" UserInfo={com.apple.ViewBridge.error.hint=advance to run phase, com.apple.ViewBridge.error.description=NSViewBridgeInvalidError} 2021-10-03 15:24:17.114075-0700 ConvertVSOPToDataFile[4887:105883] -[NSSavePanel beginServicePanel] : an exception occurred during attempt to advance an Open/Save panel to run phase! 2021-10-03 15:24:17.116188-0700 ConvertVSOPToDataFile[4887:105883] -[NSSavePanel runModal] caught non-fatal NSObjectNotAvailableException 'The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.ViewBridge error 16.)' with user dictionary {     error = "Error Domain=com.apple.ViewBridge Code=16 "(null)" UserInfo={com.apple.ViewBridge.error.hint=advance to run phase, com.apple.ViewBridge.error.description=NSViewBridgeInvalidError}"; } and backtrace ( 0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff205601db __exceptionPreprocess + 242 1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff20299d92 objc_exception_throw + 48 2   AppKit                              0x00007fff237148ab -[NSSavePanel beginServicePanel] + 717 3   AppKit                              0x00007fff23715044 -[NSSavePanel runModal] + 98 4   ConvertVSOPToDataFile               0x000000010334cea1 $s21ConvertVSOPToDataFile11AppDelegateC19browseButtonClickedyyypF + 1313 5   ConvertVSOPToDataFile               0x000000010334d681 $s21ConvertVSOPToDataFile11AppDelegateC19browseButtonClickedyyypFTo + 65 6   AppKit                              0x00007fff22f0e2bb -[NSApplication(NSResponder) sendAction:to:from:] + 288 7   AppKit                              0x00007fff22f0e15f -[NSControl sendAction:to:] + 86 8   AppKit                              0x00007fff22f0e091 __26-[NSCell _sendActionFrom:]_block_invoke + 131 9   AppKit                              0x00007fff22f0df98 -[NSCell _sendActionFrom:] + 171 10  AppKit                              0x00007fff22f0dede -[NSButtonCell _sendActionFrom:] + 96 11  AppKit                              0x00007fff22f0afc7 NSControlTrackMouse + 1820 12  AppKit                              0x00007fff22f0a883 -[NSCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 130 13  AppKit                              0x00007fff22f0a74a -[NSButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 697 14  AppKit                              0x00007fff22f09a72 -[NSControl mouseDown:] + 722 15  AppKit                              0x00007fff22f07e5e -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _handleMouseDownEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 4961 16  AppKit                              0x00007fff22e77648 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 2594 17  AppKit                              0x00007fff22e76a06 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 347 18  AppKit                              0x00007fff22e74e14 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) sendEvent:] + 352 19  AppKit                              0x00007fff2314dbe1 -[NSApplication _handleEvent:] + 65 20  AppKit                              0x00007fff22cddc8e -[NSApplication run] + 623 21  AppKit                              0x00007fff22cb1e6c NSApplicationMain + 816 22  ConvertVSOPToDataFile               0x0000000103350064 $sSo21NSApplicationDelegateP6AppKitE4mainyyFZ + 36 23  ConvertVSOPToDataFile               0x0000000103350037 $s21ConvertVSOPToDataFile11AppDelegateC5$mainyyFZ + 39 24  ConvertVSOPToDataFile               0x0000000103350208 main + 24 25  libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff20409f3d start + 1 26  ???                                 0x0000000000000003 0x0 + 3 ) ==============` END ============= Failure is consistent as is the error output. Any ideas would be appreciated! TIA ClarkW

I don't use Metal in most of my projects. I don't want to use Metal in most of my projects. But every new macOS swift project I create has the Metal API Validation checked. This produces the dreaded "Unable to locate MetalPluginName property or is of the wrong type" and one or two other errors. How do I get Metal out of my default builds? I know how to uncheck the Validation API but I don't want it checked in the first place. macOS: 11.6 (20G165) Xcode: Version 13.0 (13A233) Any suggestions appreciated. TIA ClarkW

I have some data that I extract some information from/ Generally it consists of a header containing some mixed format data (text and integer) followed by several lines of mixed format (Int, Double) information. EX: Header: " VERSION C3    EARTH     VARIABLE 1 (XYZ)       *T**0   1007 TERMS" from which I parse out ["C3", "EARTH", 1, 0, 1007] this is followed by 1007 lines containing numbers similar to: [3310, 232, 0, 0, 11, -21,  2,  0,  0,  0, -1,  0,  0,  1, -0.00000001572, -0.00000001245, 0.00000002005, 4.16423892775, 6303.67498687370] The input is all textual and to speed things up needs to be saved as binary data for input. That's the easy part -- read it in and parse it into arrays of type Any. Plists are too slow. Here is little code fragment of what I am trying to do: var targetFile: Data = Data() // read source file data (there is a try-catch here ignored in the code fragment)      let inputData = String ( contentsOf:  sourceFileUrl )      sourceFileByLines = inputData.components( separatedBy: "\n" ) // multiple headers followed by multiple lines of data, repeated // header loop starts here getKeyInfomationFromHeaderLine ( line: sourceFileByLines! [ nextline ], theVersion: &version, body: &aBody , currentVariable: &variable, aT0Power: &t0Power, aTermCount: &termCount ) var headerValues: [Any] = [String(version), String(aBody), variable, t0Power, termCount] targetfile += Data ( bytes: &headerValues, count: headerValues.count * MemoryLayout<[Any]>.stride ) // Start loop to process term data line. // Build binary line      for i in 0...13 { nextLineBinary [ i ] = Int ( nextLineSource [ i ] )! } for i in 14...18 {          nextLineBinary [ i ] = Double ( nextLineSource [ i ] )! } targetfile += Data ( bytes: &nextLineBinary, count: nextLineBinary.count * MemoryLayout<[Any]>.stride ) // increment & decrement loop control-variables // End loop for data lines // End loop for headers All the variables are defined and the loops are proper and run to completion. But when I read the data into an [[Any]] array the data is confused (extra data is found, especially in the header values). So the question is how should I be encoding, writing, reading, decoding and storing that data? Any suggestions appreciated. TIA, ClarkW

Does anyone know what generates this error and secondly how to get rid of it? The module that generates the error has nine large (2000 element) arrays of type Double. But the values of the elements in the array are reasonable for doubles: -6000..+6000 TIA ClarkW

I have an App I am converting from Xcode 11 to Xcode 14. I cleaned up several things and fixed deprecated and added new methods, etc. I compiled several times and each time my compiler anomalies were warnings. Mostly debug warnings (print statement commented out but the temp variable was assigned a value which generated an 'assigned but never read' warning; that kind of thing). Time to do the "Settings" cleanup. I did a clean and a reset errors followed by a build. I immediately got this error: `Build target StarParty of project StarParty with configuration Debug CpResource /Users/clarkw/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/StarParty-cgkfxhebstoajgcwqfevvzggyycn/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/StarParty.app/Settings.bundle /Volumes/Public/Projects/iOSApps/SIGHApps/Swift/StarParty/StarParty/Settings.bundle (in target 'StarParty' from project 'StarParty') cd /Volumes/Public/Projects/iOSApps/SIGHApps/Swift/StarParty builtin-copy -exclude .DS_Store -exclude CVS -exclude .svn -exclude .git -exclude .hg -resolve-src-symlinks /Volumes/Public/Projects/iOSApps/SIGHApps/Swift/StarParty/StarParty/Settings.bundle /Users/clarkw/ /Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/StarParty-cgkfxhebstoajgcwqfevvzggyycn/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/StarParty.app error: open /Volumes/Public/Projects/iOSApps/SIGHApps/Swift/StarParty/StarParty/Settings.bundle/Root.plist: Device not configured (in target 'StarParty' from project 'StarParty') open /Volumes/Public/Projects/iOSApps/SIGHApps/Swift/StarParty/StarParty/Settings.bundle/Root.plist: Device not configured Build failed 8/3/23, 01:28 7.5 seconds` Mac Studio, Apple M2 Ultra, 128GB RAM, Ventura 13.5, Xcode Version 14.3.1 (14E300c) I have diffed the plist file with my original (prior to error plist) and they are identical. Would anyone Please give me a clue what the error means? I'd appreciate it. TIA ClarkW