My olden app has finally hit the market. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/01/apple-shares-us-states-adopting-wallet-ids/ It’s only taken 7 years since I worked on it. : ) Cheers to everyone else who

In a UIKit context, has anyone had experience/success in using async/await to synchronize a modal dialog with other logic? I've tried it a bit without success. I.e, given a presented dialog, I want to

I have a macOS app I’d like to embed an executable from a swift package. However, while I can add the swift package under the app target’s “Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content” section, and ad

Anybody uses the Scanner class? I’m using an instance to extract some data from a string received from a web server. If I have a string that is “45\nBlah”, read the “45”, the scanner location is just

[I'd sent this to cocoa-dev@..., but ISTR that list is deprecated. Resending here.] I am working on a document storage format that consists of logical zones that nest. You can think of them sort of li

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Hi all, I was working on some demo code investigating the use of secure archiving, since I guess we all have to adopt that if we can. I have a simple container class (a linked list) that I decided to

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class ViewController: UIViewController { override func decodeRestorableState(with coder: NSCoder) { NSLog("\(#function) will super; coder \(coder); allowedClasses \(String(describing: coder.allowedCla

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We’ve all seen so many Swift references about when to use a struct as opposed to a class. But coming from Objective-C like lots of us, does anyone have any resources or guidelines for when and why to

I have an macOS app, which uses a privileged helper tool: de.mdenkmann.SW-Helper This helper tool crashes with (Console.app): ASI found [dyld] (sensitive) 'Library not loaded: @rpath/libclang_rt.tsan_

Hi. I’d like to share what I just played with this morning using Apple’s sample code and see if anyone is seeing the same things. The sample app on iOS, Juice, is here and is pretty easy to get up and

My app implements a report-generation function which displays reports in a presented view controller. The view controller includes an Activity Button, which uses UIActivityViewController to present th

I have a simple C command line tool. This takes 16 seconds when I run it in Xcode with “My Mac”. But only 11 seconds when run with “My Mac (Rosetta)” How can this be? I always assumed that emulating I

I have a Watch-App using SwiftUI. let fontSize = 40.0 struct WatchContentView: View { @State var timeAttributedStr = AttributedString("--") let timer = Timer.publish(every: 1, tolerance: 0.1, on: .mai

I wonder if anyone has figured out a way to retrieve ALL available Finder tags on Monterey and later? On pre-Monterey systems, it was possible by reading this file: ~/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.app

Hi All, Does anyone know if there is a version of Rust that works with XCode and/or Cocoa? All the Best Dave