Ahh... the joy of Apple Help programming!
Great (Nov. 2021) post on the topic:
"Why won’t that Help book open?",
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/16/why-wont-that-help-book-open/
Provides some tips when working on Help Books.
I've found that copying an existing (e.g. Apple) help book and starting from there (adding content for your own app) worked best for me in the past.
Even managed to enable print for (local) Help Books via reverse engineering Apple's user guides, something my users have been asking for.
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Same question here!
Hellooooooo Apple - anybody home??
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Cheers - saw that before when searching, but doesn't really apply.
I've ended up sprinkling my code with @available conditionals and setting min/maxSize for NSToolbarItems programmatically for legacy macOS versions (many of my users are still running for sure).
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Same issue here!
10 months.. no answer - problems like these demonstrate why it's so much fun to create apps on macOS.
Really, really sad state of affairs.
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Been a while - thanks for the pointer to NSPrintPanelOptions but it doesn't help expanding the details.
Note that you'd have to reset to the initial app state (e.g. by deleting the app's container) or macOS will remember if you've previously expanded the details section.
My aim is to expand the details section by default starting with the first launch of my Mac app to help (inexperienced) users along finding the app specific print settings (accessory controller).
Any hints appreciated,
Jay
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FWIW here are some screenshots that demonstrate how much the usability has deteriorated in Big Sur.
Before Big Sur:
imgur.com/90mR8Mm
Big Sur:
imgur.com/JIMF29h
Any ideas on how to change this back to being usable on Big Sur..?
Cheers,
Jan
This is ridiculous - as a long time Mac user it's painful to see Apple slowly (but consistently) transforming from a company focussed on user experience and ease of use to a stubborn enterprise insisting on dumbing down their products across the entire line of hw and sw offerings :-(
You gotta be kidding me..
Are we holding it wrong?
