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Reply to How to Create a Searchable Help Book with Help Indexer?
Ahh... the joy of Apple Help programming! Great (Nov. 2021) post on the topic: "Why won’t that Help book open?", https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/16/why-wont-that-help-book-open/ Provides some tips when working on Help Books. I've found that copying an existing (e.g. Apple) help book and starting from there (adding content for your own app) worked best for me in the past. Even managed to enable print for (local) Help Books via reverse engineering Apple's user guides, something my users have been asking for.
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: Core OS Tags:
Nov ’21
Reply to Expand details in NSPrintPanel by default?
Still getting frequent emails from confused customers as I have a customer base of .. casual Mac users who don't understand that the macOS Print Panel can be expanded to show additional, application specific settings. Any input from an Apple Engineer much appreciated. cheers, Jan
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: AppKit Tags:
Nov ’22
Reply to Mac App Store updater crashing my apps
Hi Quinn, That would seem sensible. However, since a couple of macOS releases I'm getting crash reports whenever I'm updating a view: Usually it happens after e.g. adding a binding or custom transformer in version B. The crash reports then come in for version A shortly after version B has been released and refer e.g. to the binding not present in the view controller or the value transformer (introduced only in newer version B) not known in older version A. I should mention that the UI of my apps is modular consisting of 100+ .xibs (.nibs), so lazy loading appears to be in effect. And this happens reliably every time I'm updating/extending the UI. (probably affecting less than 1% of the user base but still annoying as I cannot do anything about the App Store's update mechanism) Thanks, Jay
Dec ’22
Reply to Is it possible to set NSToolbarItem size to automatic via code?
Same issue here! 10 months.. no answer - problems like these demonstrate why it's so much fun to create apps on macOS. Really, really sad state of affairs.
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Jun ’21
Reply to Is it possible to set NSToolbarItem size to automatic via code?
Cheers - saw that before when searching, but doesn't really apply. I've ended up sprinkling my code with @available conditionals and setting min/maxSize for NSToolbarItems programmatically for legacy macOS versions (many of my users are still running for sure).
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Jun ’21
Reply to mac-to-mac remote debugging
Same question here! Hellooooooo Apple - anybody home??
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Jun ’21
Reply to How to Create a Searchable Help Book with Help Indexer?
Ahh... the joy of Apple Help programming! Great (Nov. 2021) post on the topic: "Why won’t that Help book open?", https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/16/why-wont-that-help-book-open/ Provides some tips when working on Help Books. I've found that copying an existing (e.g. Apple) help book and starting from there (adding content for your own app) worked best for me in the past. Even managed to enable print for (local) Help Books via reverse engineering Apple's user guides, something my users have been asking for.
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Nov ’21
Reply to Expand details in NSPrintPanel by default?
Still getting frequent emails from confused customers as I have a customer base of .. casual Mac users who don't understand that the macOS Print Panel can be expanded to show additional, application specific settings. Any input from an Apple Engineer much appreciated. cheers, Jan
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Nov ’22
Reply to Mac App Store updater crashing my apps
FWIW - I'm already using RSAppMovementMonitor (https://github.com/redsweater/RSAppMovementMonitor) but it won't detect the updater process swapping the binaries while the app is running..
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Nov ’22
Reply to Can't click on some areas of my apps on macOS Ventura
Have you investigated the view hierarchy with Xcode's view debugger? This is commonly caused by views on top of the view in question 'eating' your mouse events.. Cheers, Jay
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Nov ’22
Reply to Mac App Store updater crashing my apps
Hi Quinn, That would seem sensible. However, since a couple of macOS releases I'm getting crash reports whenever I'm updating a view: Usually it happens after e.g. adding a binding or custom transformer in version B. The crash reports then come in for version A shortly after version B has been released and refer e.g. to the binding not present in the view controller or the value transformer (introduced only in newer version B) not known in older version A. I should mention that the UI of my apps is modular consisting of 100+ .xibs (.nibs), so lazy loading appears to be in effect. And this happens reliably every time I'm updating/extending the UI. (probably affecting less than 1% of the user base but still annoying as I cannot do anything about the App Store's update mechanism) Thanks, Jay
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Dec ’22
Reply to Mac App Store updater crashing my apps
Hi Quinn, Exactly. Only crash reports with the very specific circumstances described above. I also haven't bothered open a support request with DTS for this reason - from experience this kind of incident usually goes nowhere w/o providing exact steps on how to replicate an issue.. Cheers, Jay — JayMcBee less than a minute ago
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Dec ’22
Reply to Mac App Store updater crashing my apps
Interesting idea - I'll give it a try and report back. Cheers, Jay
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Dec ’22
Reply to Determining paper orientation (NSPrintInfo)
My bad - NSPrintInfo.sharedPrintInfo is different from NSPrintOperation.currentOperation.printInfo Cheeky! Cheers, Jay
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Dec ’22
Reply to Page Setup dialog crashing on macOS Ventura 13.1
FWIW a clean re-install (removal of app plus all data, e.g. via LaunchPad) eventually resolved the issue with macOS Ventura for our users... Cheers, Jay
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Jan ’23
Reply to New pricing available already?
..anytime soon now, yes? Cheers, Jay
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Jan ’23
Reply to NSToolbarItem.minSize and NSToolbarItem.maxSize methods are deprecated
It appears in my case - after switching the size mode to 'Automatic' for all items - a stray NSToolbarSeparatorItem (deprecated) was causing the warning. After removing the NSToolbarSeparatorItem the warning was gone.. Cheers, Jay
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Feb ’23
Reply to Where are the SceneKit WWDC videos..?
Right... crickets. So I suppose the gist of it is then SceneKit == dead RealityKit == modern, future-proof replacement Yes? Could anybody from the mothership please provide any kind of guidance.. Cheers, Jay
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Dec ’23