I am working on an app which I would like to support 10.x for the next release. The problem I have is in a UITableViewDelegate: I have two actions which I'd like to implement for cells. In 10.x, I hav

I have a situation where I want a user tap on a UILabel to generate a segue. (Yes, it sounds a bit strange, but it makes sense in context.) Working with a storyboard, I add a Tap Gesture Recognizer, c

Is there a replacement for LSSharedFileListCreate, LSSharedFileListInsertItemURL &c that have been deprecated in the latest SDKs? Or is there another way to add something to the Finder's sidebar or to

Hi all, I’ve been trying to figure out what happened on an overnight run of the code that drives our scientific experiment, and I’m seeing logs that imply that a timer has been firing much more rapidl

Hi all, We’ve received a number of reports from users of a crash due to a SIGILL as follows: Exception Type: SIGILL Exception Codes: ILL_ILLOPC at 0x7fff32837454 Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0

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

I have an NSTextField (macOS 13.4, Xcode Version 9.3 (9E145)) which says: textColour Generic Gray colorspace 1 1 backGroundColour NSCalibratedWhiteColorSpace 0 0.4 This, I guess, means all white and a

macOS 13.4; Xcode Version 9.3 (9E145). This is (I believe) documented to work: NSString *answer = … if ( answer.length == 0 ) { // works for answer = nil or answer = “” (empty string) answer = @“No an

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

This simple little playground doesn’t print any value for the last line. It is a minimization of an issue I’m having in a larger program where the key-value can not be found. Is it me (likely) or is i

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

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