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Last Week on My Mac: Plan ahead with this summer’s mallyshag

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To avoid your app’s icon going into the sin bin, replace it with one generated by Icon Composer. But that in turn requires overhauling some windows, and there’s a catch in NSLog waiting to get you.

June 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Who’s afraid of changing interface?

Rumours are that macOS 16 will bring interface changes to increase consistency across platforms. What does this mean in terms of macOS API support and what we’ll see in the betas?

May 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Picking dates and times

How does SwiftUI let the user enter dates and times in its Date Picker? The answer is without seconds, which are only allowed in watchOS. And it gets worse.

July 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: Drag and drop, Source Code

Swift source code implementing drag and drop and more, to accompany the main article.

May 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: Drag and drop, and more

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Implementing a basic drag-and-drop app for macOS using SwiftUI: the DropDelegate protocol, and working with NSItemProvider. With full source and notarized example.

May 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: Documents, Source Code

Swift source code to accompany article about implementing a document-based app in SwiftUI for macOS.

May 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: Documents

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Implementing a document-based app in SwiftUI for macOS. Fun and games with menus, and what are the differences between FileDocument and ReferenceFileDocument protocols?

May 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views source code

Swift source code to accompany the article on SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views.

May 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views

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Trying to display formatted text in plain text, markdown, rich text, HTML, and PDF using SwiftUI and in AppKit/WebKit views within SwiftUI.

May 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: Settings, defaults and About source code

Swift source code to accompany the matching article on SwiftUI on macOS: Settings, defaults and About.

April 30, 2024 Macs, Technology

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