I have an App that needs to be upgraded (thanks App Store) and I want the new App to Open and migrate it’s old documents to the new versions document. With the new File Type and Extension. All good, I

Hi, I have a metronome app that is able to play audio in the background just fine. It even continues playing when the screens is locked. That is, until the screen goes dark after a few seconds. Playba

I have an app (macOS 13.4, Xcode Version 9.3 (9E145)) which was localised (Xcode did some magic for me). Now I made some changes. Is there a way to update the Localizable.string, MainMenu.strings, etc

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Hello All, I’m looking for remote work on Mac and iOS. I have over 25 years experience on the Mac and iOS since the first iPhone. I’ve recently finishing a long contract where I gained a *lot* of expe

Xcode 9.2, iOS 11.2, Objective-C Looking at the header for NSData, and base64EncodedStringWithOptions: NSDataBase64EncodingOptions, the options are these starting on line 50 of NSData.h: typedef NS_OP

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I am trying to make an macOS app international. On thing is MainMenu.strings. This contains lots of stuff which must have an official translation (e.g. into German) already. (e.g. Edit → Cut). Is ther

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Hi All, I’ve almost got my threaded Consumer/Producer Working using NSThread and friends. However, under certain circumstances, I’m getting objects “stuck” on the queue and the Consumer thread not fir

I have a method like (macOS 13.3, Xcode 9.2 (9C40b)): - (NSUInteger)computeFor: (NSUInteger)arg reason: (NSString * __autoreleasing *)reason { NSUInteger value; // some computing… if ( reason != NULL

I have a view-based NSOutlineTable with a single column containing static text. How do I make the column resize appropriately so that the table will scroll horizontally, rather than truncating the tex

Hi All, I need to do some changes to a Mac Objective-C project to do the following: 1. Data is Sent to a Delegate method in a class. 2. The data is validated by this method and if ok, it needs to be p

Hi all, I’m working on a small custom view project (Mac), and have it working generally quite well. I decided to make it IB_DESIGNABLE, and that too mostly works - I can see the view in IB rendered wi

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HiI all, I have a dictionary that has been loaded from a plist file, which has a deep structure of dictionaries within dictionaries. I would like to modify just one key-value pair deep in that hierarc