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Printing from a SwiftUI app (on macOS)?
How does one print from a SwiftUI app (on macOS)? Is there any SwiftUI or Swift API for this, or do I just use the old AppKit APIs (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/printing)? What if I wanted to print from iOS?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Sep ’24
macOS app gets error when I attempt to open a file URL provided by SwiftUI fileImporter
I'm using the SwiftUI .fileImporter() modifier to present a file open panel to the user, and then I access the returned file URL using String(contentsOf:encoding:). Then I get an error, "The file “order_history.csv” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it." The thing is, my app (recently created in Xcode 16.1 beta from macOS template) has the User Selected File entitlement set to "Read Only." It should allow reading such a file, should it not?
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Sep ’24
UICloudSharingContainer equivalent on macOS (i.e. SwiftUI)?
I'm trying to write a SwiftUI iOS/macOS app that allows users to collaborate, but I keep running into limitations. The latest is that I can't figure out what the UICloudSharingContainer equivalent is on macOS. It doesn't seem like there’s a SwiftUI version of this, so I have to write a lot of platform-specific code to handle it, but it's not clear what the AppKit equivalent is.
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Oct ’24
Invalid bundle ID for container
I'm trying to get the CoreDataCloudKitShare example to work, but having trouble. The first error I see when running the InitializeCloudKitSchema target (on macOS) is the following: error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _performSetupRequest:]_block_invoke(1242): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x60000229c0f0>: Failed to set up CloudKit integration for store: <NSSQLCore: 0x15b807830> (URL: file:///Users/rmann/Library/Application%20Support/InitializeCloudKitSchema/CoreDataStores/Private/private.sqlite) <CKError 0x600001311290: "Partial Failure" (2/1011); "Failed to modify some record zones"; uuid = 3E1B1380-AE1C-4B14-97A8-7F60B4A8F3EF; container ID = "iCloud.com.example.CoreDataCloudKitShareH6F2W964VK"; partial errors: { com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.zone:__defaultOwner__ = <CKError 0x60000132f810: "Permission Failure" (10/2007); server message = "Invalid bundle ID for container"; op = F3987848B25CEED7; uuid = 3E1B1380-AE1C-4B14-97A8-7F60B4A8F3EF> }> I see a database in the Dashboard with that container ID, but don't know what it means by "Invalid bundle ID for container". I've seen several other posts about this across the web, and the only answer is ever "seems to be an Apple issue, wait a bit."
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Oct ’24
SwiftUI previews and CloudKit sharing
The SwiftUI templates provided by Xcode typically create an in-memory store for preview purposes. I started from one of these templates and added the necessary code for working with CloudKit shares, but now the existing preview store creation gets runtime errors I'm struggling to understand. The ultimate error is: FAULT: NSInternalInconsistencyException: Unsupported feature in this configuration; { store = "<NSSQLCore: 0x12e26b170> (URL: file:///dev/null)"; } There are other things in the log like: warning: Multiple NSEntityDescriptions claim the NSManagedObject subclass 'Trip' so +entity is unable to disambiguate. This might be due in part to the normal full stack being instantiated during a unit test, but that was the only way I could step through the code to try to see what was causing the SwiftUI preview to crash. I can't build the full core data stack as normal, because then the unit tests and previews pollute the real store.
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Oct ’24
Refreshing AASA file?
I recently started a new app that supports universal links. I noticed an error in the apple-app-site-association (AASA) file and updated it. I used mode=developer in the applinks configuration, and it works well on Simulator, but for the life of me I can't get my device to load the new file, and the CDN hasn't updated in days. Any suggestions for how to get it to update, or get iOS to load the file directly? mode=developer is supposed to do this, but it simply won't on device. I've tried touching the file, and I can see its reported HTTP last modification date and eTag have changed. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the app; I've tried restarting the phone; I've tried clean builds; I've tried changing the applinks: to something else and reinstalling; I've tried installing via TestFlight.
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Jul ’25
AXIsProcessTrusted returns true, but AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue fails with .cannotComplete
This was working a few days ago, but it has since stopped and I can't figure out why. I've tried resetting TCC, double-checking my entitlements, restarting, deleting and rebuilding, and nothing works. My app is a sandboxed macOS SwiftUI LSUIElement app that, when invoked, checks to see if the frontmost process is Terminal, then tries to get the frontmost window’s title. func getFrontmostWindowTitle() throws -&gt; String? { let trusted = AXIsProcessTrusted() print("getFrontmostWindowTitle AX trusted: \(trusted)") guard let app = NSWorkspace.shared.frontmostApplication else { return nil } let appElement = AXUIElementCreateApplication(app.processIdentifier) var focusedWindow: AnyObject? let status = AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(appElement, kAXFocusedWindowAttribute as CFString, &amp;focusedWindow) guard status == .success, let window = focusedWindow else { if status == .cannotComplete { throw Errors.needAccessibilityPermission } return nil } var title: AnyObject? let titleStatus = AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(window as! AXUIElement, kAXTitleAttribute as CFString, &amp;title) guard titleStatus == .success else { return nil } return title as? String } I recently renamed the app, but the Bundle ID has not yet changed. I have com.apple.security.accessibility set to YES in the Entitlements file (although i had to add it manually), and a NSAccessibilityUsageDescription string set in Info.plist. The first time I ran this, macOS nicely prompted for permission. Now it won't do that, even when I use AXIsProcessTrustedWithOptions() to try to force it. If I use tccutil to reset accessibility and apple events, it still doesn't prompt. If I drag my app from the build products folder to System Settings, it gets added to the system TCC DB (not the user DB). It shows an auth value of 2 for my app: % sudo sqlite3 "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db" "SELECT client,auth_value FROM access WHERE service='kTCCServiceAccessibility' OR service='kTCCServiceAppleEvents';" com.latencyzero.&lt;redacted&gt;|2 &lt;redactd&gt; I'm at a loss as to what went wrong. I proved out the concept earlier and it worked, and have since spent a lot of time enhancing and polishing the app, and now things aren't working and I'm starting to worry.
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Jul ’25
Error when using SecItemAdd with kSecReturnPersistentRef and user presence kSecAttrAccessControl
I'm trying to add a generic password to the keychain and get back the persistent ID for it, and give it .userPresence access control. Unfortunately, if I include that, I get paramError back from SecItemAdd. Here's the code: @discardableResult func set(username: String, hostname: String?, password: String, comment: String? = nil) throws -> PasswordEntry { // Delete any existing matching password… if let existing = try? getEntry(forUsername: username, hostname: hostname) { try deletePassword(withID: existing.id) } // Store the new password… var label = username if let hostname { label = label + "@" + hostname } var item: [String: Any] = [ kSecClass as String : kSecClassGenericPassword, kSecAttrDescription as String : "TermPass Password", kSecAttrGeneric as String : self.bundleID.data(using: .utf8)!, kSecAttrLabel as String : label, kSecAttrAccount as String : username, kSecValueData as String : password.data(using: .utf8)!, kSecReturnData as String : true, kSecReturnPersistentRef as String: true, ] if self.synchronizable { item[kSecAttrSynchronizable as String] = kCFBooleanTrue! } if let hostname { item[kSecAttrService as String] = hostname } if let comment { item[kSecAttrComment as String] = comment } // Apply access control to require the user to prove presence when // retrieving this password… var error: Unmanaged<CFError>? guard let accessControl = SecAccessControlCreateWithFlags(nil, kSecAttrAccessibleWhenUnlockedThisDeviceOnly, .userPresence, &error) else { let cfError = error!.takeUnretainedValue() as Error throw cfError } item[kSecAttrAccessControl as String] = accessControl item[kSecAttrAccessible as String] = kSecAttrAccessibleWhenUnlockedThisDeviceOnly var result: AnyObject! let status = SecItemAdd(item as CFDictionary, &result) try Errors.throwIfError(osstatus: status) load() guard let secItem = result as? [String : Any], let persistentRef = secItem[kSecValuePersistentRef as String] as? Data else { throw Errors.malformedItem } let entry = PasswordEntry(id: persistentRef, username: username, hostname: hostname, password: password, comment: comment) return entry } (Note that I also tried it omitting kSecAttrAccessible, but it had no effect.) This code works fine if I omit setting kSecAttrAccessControl. Any ideas? TIA!
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Jul ’25
Xcode misses breakpoints
I have some code calling this method: mutating func readOffset() UInt64 { let offset: UInt64 debugLog("readOffset") switch (self.formatVersion) { case .v42: let offset32: UInt32 = self.reader.get() offset = UInt64(offset32) case .v43: offset = self.reader.get() } return offset } If I put a breakpoint on the switch statement, Xcode never stops there, and if the debugLog() call is commented out, I can't even step into the function at the call site; it just runs to the next breakpoint in my code, wherever that happens to be. If I put the breakpoint on debugLog(), it stops at the breakpoint. If I put breakpoints at the self.reader.get() calls, it stops at those breakpoints AND I can step into it. This is a unit test targeting macOS, and optimization is -Onone. Xcode 12.4 (12D4e) on Catalina 10.15.7 (19H524).
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Apr ’21
Best practices for displaying very large images (macOS SwiftUI)
I’m writing an app that, among other things, displays very large images (e.g. 106,694 x 53,347 pixels). These are GeoTIFF images, in this case containing digital elevation data for a whole planet. I will eventually need to be able to draw polygons on the displayed image. There was a time when one would use CATiledLayer, but I wonder what is best today. I started this app in Swift/Cocoa, but I'm toying with the idea of starting over in SwiftUI (my biggest hesitation is that I have yet to upgrade to Big Sur). The image data I have is in strips, with an integral number of image rows per strip. Strips are not guaranteed to be contiguous in the file. Pixel formats vary, but in the motivating use case are 16 bits per pixel, with the values signifying meters. As a first approximation, I can simply display these values in a 16 bpp grayscale image. Is the right thing to do to set up a CoreImage pipeline? As I understand it that should give me some automatic memory management, right? I’m hoping to find out the best approach before I spend a lot of time going down the wrong path.
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Apr ’21
Adjusting L16 pixel format values in custom CIFilter/CIKernel
Is there documentation describing the semantics of a Metal CIKernel function? I have image data where each pixel is a signed 16-bit integer. I need to convert that into any number of color values, starting with a simple shift from signed to unsigned (e.g. the data in one image ranges from about -8,000 to +20,000, and I want to simply add 8,000 to each pixel's value). I've got a basic filter working, but it treats the pixel values as floating point, I think. I've tried using both sample_t and sample_h types in my kernel, and simple arithmetic: extern "C" coreimage::sample_h heightShader(coreimage::sample_h inS, coreimage::destination inDest) { coreimage::sample_h r = inS + 0.1; return r; } This has an effect, but I don't really know what's in inS. Is it a vector of four float16? What are the minimum and maximum values? They seem to be clamped to 1.0 (and perhaps -1.0). Well, I’ve told CI that my input image is CIFormat.L16, which is 16-bit luminance, so I imagine it's interpreting the bits as unsigned? Anyway, where is this documented, if anywhere (the correspondence between input image pixel format and the actual values that get passed to a filter kernel)? Is there a type that lets me work on the integer values? This document - https://developer.apple.com/metal/MetalCIKLReference6.pdf implies that I can only work with floating-point values. But it doesn't tell me how they're mapped. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Apr ’21