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SwiftUI

System fonts: the delights of San Francisco

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.

August 2, 2024 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

Writing a third-generation log browser using SwiftUI: 2 Displaying log entries

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Displaying log entries using semantic colour seemed most appropriate using AttributedString, but performs very poorly. The solution is a SwiftUI List view.

July 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

Writing a third-generation log browser using SwiftUI: 1 Getting log entries

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Moving away from using the log command tool to obtain log extracts for browsing requires using OSLog. Its API explored and implemented in a demo app.

July 15, 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

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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: Documents, Source Code

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

May 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why SwiftUI?

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Why is SwiftUI so important that the Swift language was changed to make it more feasible to implement? Is it just for ease of multi-platform support? Or is it just greener grass?

May 12, 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

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