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Issue #715
I remember this time last year in December 2019, I spent almost every single bit of my free time on Puma because I want a Swift friendly version of fastlane that suits my need and leverages Swift 5 features.
Here’s my review of my …
Issue #733
NSTextView has this handy method to make scrollable NSTextView NSTextView.scrollableTextView(). The solution is to get to the responder outside enclosing NSScrollView, in my case it is the SwiftUI hosting view
class DisabledScrollTextView: …Issue #732
Use NSMutableAttributedString and add attribute for whole range
let a: NSAttributedString
let m: NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: a)
let range = NSRange(location: 0, length: a.length)
m.addAttribute(. …Issue #731
Sometimes we don’t want to show progress view right away
HUDProgressView()
.transition(
AnyTransition.asymmetric(
insertion: AnyTransition.opacity.animation(Animation.default.delay(1)),
removal: …Issue #730
Use NSTextField with maximumNumberOfLines
import AppKit
import SwiftUI
struct AttributedText: NSViewRepresentable {
let attributedString: NSAttributedString
init(_ attributedString: NSAttributedString) {
self. …Issue #729
@NSApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
@IBAction func copy(_ sender: Any) {
print("copy", sender)
}
@IBAction func paste(_ sender: Any) {
print("paste", sender) …Issue #728
NSItemProvider(object: StringProvider(string: string))
class StringProvider: NSObject, NSItemProviderWriting {
let string: String
init(string: String) {
self.string = string
super.init()
}
static var …Issue #727
Use # in Swift 5 to specify raw string, for example regular expression
#"^#?(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{3}){1,2}$"#
Issue #726
@propertyWrapper
struct UserDefault<Value> {
let key: String
let defaultValue: Value
let container: UserDefaults = .standard
var wrappedValue: Value {
get {
return container.object(forKey: key) as …Issue #725
When you want to check for existence using Bool, consider using Set over Dictionary with Bool, as Set guarantee uniqueness. If using Dictionary instead, the value for key is Optional<Bool> where we have to check for both optional and …
Issue #724
We can use .blur modifier, but with VisualEffectView gives us more options for material and blending mode.
public struct VisualEffectView: NSViewRepresentable {
let material: NSVisualEffectView.Material
let blendingMode: …Issue #723
Use @ViewBuilder to build dynamic content for our HUD. For blur effect, here I use NSVisualEffectView, but we can use .blur modifier also
struct HUD<Content>: View where Content: View {
let content: () -> Content
init(@ …Issue #722
With Xcode 12, we can fire up Instrument to profile our app. Select SwiftUI template
There are many profiles in that template, I find SwiftUI and Time Profile very useful. Here’s the profile I run for my app PastePal
Issue #721
For setFrame to take effect
mainWindow.setFrame(rect, display: true)
we can remove auto save frame flag
mainWindow.setFrameAutosaveName("MyApp.MainWindow")
Issue #720
NSStatusItem is backed by NSButton, we can animate this inner button. We need to specify position and anchorPoint for button’s layer so it rotates around its center point
guard
let button = statusItem.button
else { return }
let …Issue #719
From SwiftUI 2 for macOS 11.0, we have access to Menu for creating menu and submenu. Usually we use Button for interactive menu items and Text for disabled menu items.
The easy way to customize menu with image is to call Menu with content …
Issue #718
Use NSSharingService.sharingServices(forItems:) with an array of one empty string gives a list of sharing items. There we show image and title of each menu item.
We should cache sharing items as that can cause performance issue
import …Issue #717
Try to use predefined system colors in Human Interface Guidelines for macOS
Here we use this color unemphasizedSelectedTextBackgroundColor for button background
HStack(spacing: 1) {
makeUnderListButton(action: {}, icon: .plus) …Issue #716
I have an enum that conforms to CaseIterable that I want to show in Picker
enum Position: String, Codable, CaseIterable, Identifiable {
var id: String { rawValue }
case left
case right
case bottom
case top
}
Picker( …Issue #715
I remember this time last year in December 2019, I spent almost every single bit of my free time on Puma because I want a Swift friendly version of fastlane that suits my need and leverages Swift 5 features.
Here’s my review of my …
Issue #714
Below is an example of a parent ContentView with State and a child Sidebar with a Binding.
The didSet is only called for the property that is changed.
When we click Button in ContentView, that changes State property, so only the didSet in …
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