Probably two things relevant here.
One is General in system preferences which look like this:
A Magic Mouse may count as a “track pad” so if you have this setting
to automatic, the scrollers will only be shown when s
On 15 Mar 2021, at 16:24, Keary Suska wrote:
That forum thread does not, as far as I can tell, say that you need a
provisioning profile for non-sandboxed apps.
In that thread, Quinn seems to acnknowledge that you need “special
permission [from Apple] for local development”
But he also says
On 14 Mar 2021, at 19:44, Michael Tsai wrote:
I think you need to apply to Apple and get a provisioning profile,
even if the app isn't sandboxed:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/653890
Thanks, what a disappointing policy decision by Apple. Especially when
they are trying to get ri
I’ve tried something like the code below to save a file not owned by
current user.
I have codesigned the application using hardened runtime and the
`com.apple.developer.security.privileged-file-operations` entitlement
(although this is outside App Store and no sandboxing).
It doesn’t work an
On 9 Mar 2021, at 12:10, Jean-Daniel wrote:
If I had to write a new software that need read/write functions today,
I would go for a modern async API, like dispatch_io.
This came up while trying to generalize a few things I have that
basically transform data, but where size is unknown, and the
We currently have two different systems that can’t easily be bridged,
effectively doing the same thing, but supporting different sources:
NSStream can work with files, data, and network streams (created by
NSURLSession and other high-level API).
NSFileHandle can work with files, pipes, stdin/
On 22 May 2020, at 21:59, Aandi Inston wrote:
1. I wonder if your tests are in a non-English language system.
No, running on a non-localized system, and the evidence is overwhelming
that this is about SIP / AMFI (based on inspecting the stack trace,
which clearly show communication between t
On 23 Apr 2020, at 21:15, Rob Petrovec wrote:
If what you say is correct then everyone would be seeing a delay since
most people don’t have blazing fast internet connections. I do not
think this is the normal behavior. I think it is specific to your
system, otherwise there would be TONS of p
On 27 Apr 2020, at 15:35, Georg Seifert via Cocoa-dev wrote:
Is there a method/callback that is called when all loading is done
(including the loading of documents).
Have a look at applicationOpenUntitledFile:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsapplicationdelegate/1428491-appl
On 24 Apr 2020, at 21:33, Gary L. Wade wrote:
Here’s two web sites that should help you get the answer you want.
Try one or both:
https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/welcome
https://www.apple.com/jobs/us/
You don’t get answers from filing bug reports with Apple, at best, the
issue gets clos
On 24 Apr 2020, at 11:49, Saagar Jha wrote:
GateKeeper is basically Safari adding a quarantine flag […]
Nit: not just Safari; other applications do this to at their
discretion when appropriate (for example, if they too download files
from the internet). Quarantine is just one part of GateKeepe
On 24 Apr 2020, at 9:57, Rob Petrovec wrote:
Also weird, why would it phone home for a shell script which has
neither been stapled nor even code-signed?
I think you answered the question just then… a "shell script which
has neither been stapled nor even code-signed”. Google XProtect &
Gateke
On 24 Apr 2020, at 9:51, Gary L. Wade wrote:
Have you tried a speed check with just iCloud turned off but internet
on?
I have tried with iCloud disabled, internet disabled, and SIP disabled.
Only the latter two removes the delay. Also, the issue happens for
~/Downloads which is not an iCloud
On 24 Apr 2020, at 2:28, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev wrote:
I believe that is why you are supposed to staple notarization tickets
to your apps.
Then, why would it "phone home" in case there is an internet
connection?
Also weird, why would it phone home for a shell script which has neither
On 24 Apr 2020, at 2:18, Rob Petrovec wrote:
I get a 1 second time for the first run and then a much quicker time
for the second. I did some sampling and the longer time due to is
Apple’s check for malware on first run of a process. This is a
known, documented and advertised behavior.
I wo
On 23 Apr 2020, at 21:15, Rob Petrovec wrote:
If what you say is correct then everyone would be seeing a delay since
most people don’t have blazing fast internet connections. I do not
think this is the normal behavior.
Please try run this in a terminal and report the times:
rm -f /tmp/t
On 20 Apr 2020, at 0:11, Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev wrote:
Unfortunately though I can’t figure out *what* the problem is;
running `tccutil reset All` (and rebooting) did not fix it.
It appears the problem is not with a local service, but that Apple
actually “phones home” when a program asks
On 20 Apr 2020, at 0:37, Rob Petrovec wrote:
>> I think you are right about this being a permission / “sandbox”
issue, because the 3 folders in question are all folders that macOS
10.15 now require special permission to read (even though in my case,
I just request their display name).
Yes, th
On 19 Apr 2020, at 22:54, David M. Cotter wrote:
i have discovered it may have to do with permissions / entitlements
that have been granted the app by the user, and that resetting all
perms to default will "fix" the problem
I think you are right about this being a permission / “sandbox”
issu
Starting with macOS 10.15 I have noticed that obtaining
NSURLLocalizedNameKey, NSURLTagNamesKey, and even calling getxattr(),
can cause a significant delay.
The code below, which gets NSURLLocalizedNameKey for 3 folders, takes
1.9 seconds to execute on my system.
It appears though that it is
On 1 Jan 2020, at 2:46, Rob Petrovec via Cocoa-dev wrote:
drawRect is not deprecated. Correct. However, it is technically old
fashioned. It is much more efficient to use layers. Layers can take
better advantage of the video card especially during animations, and
don’t require unnecessary redr
On 27 Dec 2019, at 13:03, Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev wrote:
> I do change copiesOnScroll.
Sorry, I meant that I do *not* change copiesOnScroll.
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On 16 Dec 2019, at 16:35, Eyal Redler wrote:
It does look very similar (except for the fact that in your example
the text is also cut on the right. Do you have copiesOnScroll turned
off as well?
I do change copiesOnScroll.
Apart from opting out of responsive scrolling, it’s should be a very
On 22 Dec 2019, at 1:18, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
Right. I was hoping there is an easy way to do this.
There is the File System Events API:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/FSEvents_ProgGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
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On 14 Dec 2019, at 21:16, Redler Eyal via Cocoa-dev wrote:
I'm getting reports from users complaining about a strange display
issue on Catalina with my app.
[…]
The problem is that when with some documents, sometimes, when the user
scrolls down the document, some pages are not drawn or even pa
On 25 Nov 2019, at 7:36, Kurt Bigler via Cocoa-dev wrote:
With a menu delegate you can lazily update the menu
(menuNeedsUpdate:) or you can even bypass updating the menu for key
events by implementing menuHasKeyEquivalent:forEvent:target:action:.
I'm not sure that's relevant to my situation,
On 24 Nov 2019, at 22:28, Kurt Bigler via Cocoa-dev wrote:
[…] The idea for least inefficiency given the global updating pass
is to defer (akin to lazy evaluation) the actual menu item updating
until the last possible moment. The last possible moment for mouse
access is when the user clicks i
On 15 Nov 2019, at 0:53, Matthew Kozak via Cocoa-dev wrote:
Another reason why there's really no harm -if not some truly topical
good- in this kind of thread (even w/ some critiques/defenses)
bubbling up here now and again...
I don’t mind off-topic discussions, but the recent thread(s) have b
On 27 Sep 2019, at 14:19, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev wrote:
It makes sense that Cocoa programmers much prefer ARC to MRC. Doing it
manually is easy to break and hard to debug. However, the fact that
ARC is
not exception-safe concerns me.
Cocoa in general is not exception safe as th
On 4 Sep 2019, at 0:18, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev wrote:
The startup code was created 3 years ago when we were new to Cocoa,
probably from one of the HIllegass books.
Do you manually load nibs (as opposed to rely on the framework to load
MainMenu.nib)?
In a previous post you wrote
On 31 Aug 2019, at 2:49, Carl Hoefs via Cocoa-dev wrote:
Same result if I run it as a system daemon. So as you suggest it seems
there could be some sort of environment sensitivity going on. If only
I knew what env var to set in the shell... UTC really isn't what I'm
looking for.
The issue ap
I am unable to make custom boolean properties animatable (via
CATransition).
Below is the source for a custom NSView subclass with a boolean property
(`visible`).
It implements `defaultAnimationForKey:` to return a CATransition
instance which should be used when the property is changed (via
On 7 Sep 2018, at 19:46, Casey McDermott wrote:
Problem is, with ARC turned on, the pointer is never nil, so it
crashes.
The void pointer somehow becomes an NSAtom instead of 0.
Nil is nil, I think your issue is rather that you do not properly retain
the pointer before storing it as void*.
On 7 Jul 2018, at 6:55, Rick Mann wrote:
If I have view commands (like fixed perspectives in a 3D view) in a
menu, I should be able to implement those on the view controller,
don't you think?
No-one is preventing you from implementing view commands in the view
controller.
But if you want t
On 5 Jul 2018, at 6:44, Rick Mann wrote:
Annoying I have to have a first responder view just to allow even my
Document to respond to menu commands.
Quoting the
[documentation](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/EventArchitecture/EventArchi
On 26 Oct 2016, at 16:22, John Brownie wrote:
Recently, I think since I updated to Sierra and Xcode 8, I get
tracebacks like the following in the Xcode console on application
close: […]
Not exactly the same, but since 10.11 I have gotten crash reports like
the one below, so it does seem like
On 14 Oct 2016, at 23:33, Stephane Sudre wrote:
I ended up writing a category for NSManager to deal with this using
the xattr.h APIs. […]
If the goal is to copy extended attributes (as one post alluded to) then
there is the `COPYFILE_METADATA` flag which can be used with
x-man-page://3/copyf
I am making use of NSURLProtocol’s `setProperty:forKey:inRequest:` but
it seems that my custom properties outlive the URL request, and even if
I explicitly call `removePropertyForKey:inRequest:` after my request is
done, it would appear that my properties are still being retained by
something.
Is there any non-deprecated API to read textClipping files?
FSOpenResFile() was deprecated in 10.8 but I haven’t found a way to
replace it. There is the com.apple.ResourceFork extended file attribute,
but it seems to be stored in some legacy format that I would rather not
try to interpret.
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On 20 Sep 2016, at 12:48, Dave wrote:
I’m using launchApplication method from Shared Workspace, however,
it accept an Application Name and all I have is the Bundle ID. How can
I launch an App using the Bundle ID?
There is `LSCopyApplicationURLsForBundleIdentifier` under Launch
Services.
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about
selected items).
On 20 Sep 2016, at 9:37, Allan Odgaard wrote:
Thanks, I’ll switch to using this category method for setting
dynamic titles:
- (void)setDynamicTitle:(NSString*)plainTitle
{
if(self.userKeyEquivalent && ![self.userKeyEquivalent
isEqual
On 20 Sep 2016, at 9:11, Dave Lyons wrote:
(Ooh! I know that one!)
The custom shortcut for Finder's File > Compress menu item continues
to work, because Finder goes slightly out if its way to achieve it.
The item's -title remains unchanged as ”Compress”, even when you
see "Compress “foo”" o
Some menu items use titles dynamically updated in validateMenuItem:
(based on application state, like if there are selected content).
This seems to be incompatible with System Preferences → Keyboard →
Shortcuts → App Shortcuts, as the menu item check for custom bindings
using their current tit
On 22 Jan 2015, at 14:11, Jens Alfke wrote:
Alter the app's Info.plist, I suppose (and then call LaunchServices to
tell it to re-register, so it'll notice the changes.)
For this to work, you need to exclude the Info.plist from the app
bundle’s signature.
If the OP insists on adapting the ic
On 11 Jan 2015, at 13:34, 2551 wrote:
any tutorial on...validating messages will do.
Yes, that's precisely what I'm looking for […]
I wrote one a decade ago:
http://sigpipe.macromates.com/2004/09/05/using-openssl-for-license-keys/
Previous thread here:
http://prod.lists.apple.com/archive
On 11 Nov 2014, at 12:18, Uli Kusterer wrote:
Now of course I can just create a hand-drawn selected version, but I
like doing things like that in code. So I’d like to have code that
takes the NSImage and makes it glow like Xcode here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/by642iw7xosnki7/Screenshot%202014
On 6 Nov 2014, at 23:40, Graham Cox wrote:
Looks like an object is not removing itself as an observer of window
notifications prior to deallocation […]
The crash happens when I re-use the window with the WebView, i.e. no
(major) objects are released.
The crash (almost) disappeared when I st
On 6 Nov 2014, at 16:53, sqwarqDev wrote:
I didn't understand this bit though:
If you do not need to encrypt a payload (as in my post) then I
suggest making the license be just a serial number followed by a
signature on that number (maybe include a short hash of the owner
name)
If anyone c
On 6 Nov 2014, at 15:00, sqwarqDev wrote:
[…] I can't find any guidance on exactly how do I generate and test
for valid licence keys at run time?
I wrote this post about the general principles of a secure license key
scheme:
http://sigpipe.macromates.com/2004/09/05/using-openssl-for-license-
On 30 Oct 2014, at 17:26, Fritz Anderson wrote:
I haven’t encountered this myself. This is stream-of-consciousness,
adding the presence of convertRect:toView: in the trace as the
immediate caller…
Thanks for your thoughts on the issue.
I haven’t pinpointed the exact cause of the crash, but I
Since Yosemite I have seen a lot of crash reports submitted where the
crash is triggered by closing a window and it mostly ends with sending
`isFlipped`, `_isLayerBacked`, or `transformRect:` to a wrong object.
I have attached a sample crash report below.
Does anyone else see this? Anyone know
On 21 Sep 2014, at 22:51, Allan Odgaard wrote:
4. If allowsImplicitAnimation is enabled then my custom layout
implementation is called a dozen times after the first (true) layout
pass. This is problematic because then I’ll do layout (again) and
effectively suppress the animation (although
On 21 Sep 2014, at 18:18, Ken Thomases wrote:
On Sep 21, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Allan Odgaard
wrote:
The problem seems to be that `layoutSubtreeIfNeeded` calls
`resizeWithOldSuperviewSize:` (using the containing view’s size),
but regardless of what’s passed to the view, it’ll set the entire
On 24 Sep 2014, at 14:29, Allan Odgaard wrote:
I have implicit animations enabled which means that when my NSView’s
-layout or -resizeSubviewsWithOldSize: methods are called, the frame
property of the view reflects the animation’s current value, which
means I place subviews in wrong locations
I have implicit animations enabled which means that when my NSView’s
-layout or -resizeSubviewsWithOldSize: methods are called, the frame
property of the view reflects the animation’s current value, which
means I place subviews in wrong locations.
How should I obtain the actual (target) frame?
On 21 Sep 2014, at 16:44, Kyle Sluder wrote:
[…] how can I ensure the position I set for a subview’s frame in
my `layout` override is not (implicitly) changed later?
You need to turn on translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints for the
subviews you position manually. That way Auto Layout know
I am overriding `NSView`’s `layout` method to manually place one of my
subviews.
I can set the frame for this subview, and it works until someone calls
`layoutSubtreeIfNeeded` on the subview (which sometimes happens
automatically during display).
The subview’s `needsLayout` property is `NO`
On 21 Sep 2014, at 6:08, 2551 wrote:
As I've been saying all along, this is such a common operation, I'd
have thought there must be a common cocoa method or API for doing it.
So the question is, can anyone tell me what that is?
The general problem you’re dealing with is that of finding the lo
I would like to create a button similiar to NSRuleEditor’s minus
(remove) button.
This is what I have tried:
NSButton* remove = [[NSButton alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0, 0, 16,
16)];
[[remove cell] setControlSize:NSSmallControlSize];
remove.bezelStyle = NSRoundRectBezelSt
On 26 Aug 2013, at 17:35, Ken Thomases wrote:
On Aug 23, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Leonid Romanov wrote:
> Pressing "Command +" results in two -performKeyEquivalent calls
[…]
[…] I'm not familiar with this particular one […]
I believe the OP pressed ⌘= which is resent as ⌘+ because Apple show
⌘+ /
On May 8, 2013, at 23:17, "David M. Cotter" wrote:
>> TextMate also draws a custom string as key equivalent ... the only (user
>> visible) shortcoming I have found is that it doesn’t left/right align the
>> key/modifier glyphs
> this was a requirement of ours, to have it actually be right align
On May 8, 2013, at 9:28, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>> […] sets the title as an attributed string using an NSTextTableBlock […]
> Any reason you're not using a custom view-based NSMenuItem? It might be
> easier to get good results that way.
A custom view means you have to render everything yourself. Th
On May 8, 2013, at 7:36, "David M. Cotter" wrote:
> […] filed a DTS incident for (and got some help with) custom-drawing menu
> items, for the express purpose of drawing an arbitrary string as the
> "keyboard shortcut" in menus. and i can tell you the work around was a PITA
> and is a bit fra
On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:51, Jens Alfke wrote:
> C++ static initializers are evil, though, at least the ones that run code.
> They run super early, in an undefined order, with no way to specify
> dependencies between them; so if you’re not careful they can slow down launch
> and/or cause weird n
ock C wants 1.
So where we should have ignored block A and accepted B and then C, we
instead accept block B, A and ignore block C.
On 16 Mar, 2013, at 23:13, Allan Odgaard
wrote:
On 16 Mar 2013, at 14:14, Roland King wrote:
[…] you have a simple counter member variable, 'curren
On 16 Mar 2013, at 14:14, Roland King wrote:
[…] you have a simple counter member variable, 'currentOperation'.
It's set to 0 when you have no operation and you increment it each
time you make a new one. The code looks like this (typed in mail)
[…]
if( currentOperation == cur
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