The older AppKit API supports seconds in its Date Picker, but they’ve been dropped from its SwiftUI successor. There are many other signs our Macs are moving to less precise time. Is this intentional, to reverse our slavery to time?
SwiftUI
Two of the Mac’s defining features, how they differ, the roles of source and receiver apps, how they work, how transferable types can limit them, and their future in macOS.
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t […]
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.
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?
Displaying rows containing text fields of widely varying length and content type is a challenge. SwiftUI List View can be an excellent solution as shown here.
Improves Signposts feature and makes a couple of minor corrections.
Supports both continuous and discontinuous selection of log entries, copy their text contents, Signposts, and smart window and file naming.
This first experimental version gets log extracts direct, rather than using the log command tool, and has a SwiftUI front end, but requires macOS 14.6 or later.
How can you use San Francisco, the system font for macOS and Apple’s other OSes? An example traced through from macOS internals to PDF and HTML.
The Eclectic Light Company 