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Last Week on My Mac: Language wars

is Swift somehow superior to Objective-C? Or is it a second-class language for macOS? Do those questions have any meaning at all?

May 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Checking your app’s own signature

How can an app check that nothing has nobbled it? How to use its code signature to perform a simple launch test.

May 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Implementing interlinear text in macOS

Presenting two or more versions of the same text close together is a challenge. Here’s how I arrived at one solution, and implemented it.

April 30, 2019 Language, Macs, Technology

Printing without tears in Dark Mode (and exporting to PDF)

How to cater for Dark Mode when printing an AppKit view, and how to add a command to export a document in PDF format. Swift 5.0.

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Running a command tool or app results in an error ‘dyld: Library not loaded’

This error message can occur when running any command tool, or an app which calls a command tool, in 10.14.3 and earlier.

April 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

When a window closes as soon as it has opened

In Sierra but not Mojave, when the user opens an ancillary window, it appears for a moment, then vanishes. Is it a bug in the code, or in AppKit?

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple quietly pre-announces major change in macOS 10.14.4

How many apps should launch faster, deliver better performance, be smaller, and use less memory than they have in the past.

February 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 7 Adding a PDF Help book

A simple way to provide a proper Help book for your app, and separate PDF documentation without wasted effort. Uses Swift in Xcode.

February 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 5 Building your own PDF reader 3

By popular request, how to customise the PDF reader’s interface to enlarge the window and show larger thumbnails. With two lines of code.

February 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 4 Building your own PDF reader 2

This second part uses Xcode’s Interface Builder to create the document window, then wire it up to the code which brings PDFKit and AppKit together.

February 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

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