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SwiftUI on macOS: Settings, defaults and About

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How to add a tabbed Settings window with different controls, for settings saved by UserDefaults, and extend the app’s About window.

April 30, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: PDF Help book source code

Swift/SwiftUI source code to accompany article on adding a PDF Help file to a SwiftUI app for macOS.

April 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: PDF Help book

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An explanation of how to implement the Help command, and how to use that to display a PDF document in a SwiftUI View.

April 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

Text with style: using styles in TextEdit and beyond

How to set up your own styles in TextEdit, DelightEd or another editor using macOS’s features. Use them to make laying out styled text easier and more powerful.

April 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: Life Cycle and App Delegate source code

Source code for the main article about SwiftUI on macOS, to be read alongside that article.

April 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

SwiftUI on macOS: Life Cycle and AppDelegate

Apple advises that SwiftUI apps for macOS avoid using AppDelegate. How can you substitute initial app setup, and cleaning up before an app quits using just SwiftUI?

April 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: SwiftUI wrangling

SwiftUI is almost five years old. Following experience porting an AppKit app for macOS to SwiftUI, it still has a long way to go. Here’s the current state of play.

April 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

A short history of versions

Introduced in OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011, this feature has undergone considerable change. Although it stored versions in iCloud Drive at one time, it doesn’t now.

April 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Drawing ahead

Apple needs to widen the gap between late Intel and Apple silicon Macs without locking Intel Macs out, mature Stage Manager, fix System Settings, and more.

June 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

Between Undo and backups: document versions

Now supported by many apps, document versions are a free and valuable feature in macOS. Here’s a summary of its features and how to get most from it.

June 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

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