Without resorting to NSViewRepresentable, is there a view or view modifier in SwiftUI that can create an NSComboButton on macOS? NSComboButton was introduced in macOS 13 and is (relatively) new to AppKit: Apple Developer - NSComboButton I only require support on macOS for this control. Note that this is not to be confused with NSComboBox, which is a completely different control.

I'm currently working on a project to integrate some SwiftUI components into an existing AppKit application. The application makes extensive use of NSViewControllers. I can easily bridge between AppKit and SwiftUI using a view model that conforms to ObservableObject and is shared between the NSViewController and the SwiftUI View. But it's kind of tedious creating a view model for every view. Is it "safe" and "acceptable" for the NSViewController to "hold on" to the SwiftUI View that it creates and then access its @State or @StateObject properties? The lifecycle of DetailsView, a SwiftUI View, isn't clear to me when viewed through the lens of an NSViewController. Consider the following: import AppKit import SwiftUI struct DetailsView: View { @State var details: String = "" var body: some View { Text(details) } } final class ViewController: NSViewController { private let detailsView: DetailsView init() { self.detailsView = DetailsView() super.init(nibName: nil, bundle: nil) } required init?(coder: NSCoder) { fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented") } override func viewDidLoad() { view.addSubview(NSHostingView(rootView: detailsView)) } func updateDetails(_ details: String) { // Is this 'safe' and 'acceptable'? self.detailsView.details = details } } Is the view controller guaranteed to always be updating the correct @State property or is there a chance that the view controller's reference to it somehow becomes stale because of a SwiftUI update?

For my macOS app, I'm trying to change the mouse cursor to a pointing hand while hovering over a specific view. However, when the view is scaled with an animation triggered by hovering (using .scaleEffect() and .animation()), the cursor doesn't change as expected. Is there any workaround to fix this? This is a sample code: struct ContentView: View { @State private var hovering = false var body: some View { VStack { Text("Hover me") .padding() .background(hovering ? Color.blue : Color.gray) .scaleEffect(hovering ? 1.2 : 1.0) .animation(.linear(duration: 0.2), value: hovering) .onHover { hovering in self.hovering = hovering if hovering { NSCursor.pointingHand.push() } else { NSCursor.pop() } } } .frame(width: 200, height: 200) } } This is how it works: As you can see, when the pointer enters the view, the cursor changes momentarily before reverting back to the arrow icon. I also tried using NSTrackingArea with an NSView placed over the view, but it did not solve the issue. It might be that the combination of .scaleEffect() and .animation() is causing a forced cursor reset (possibly related to the use of NSWindow.disableCursorRects() or something similar). However, I'm not entirely sure. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Security scoped bookmarks that were created before updating to macOS 14.7.5 cannot be resolved anymore after updating to macOS 14.7.5. Reproduction: Sandboxed app on macOS version 14.7.4 Create and store a security scoped bookmark to a user selected folder: let url: URL = <user selected url from NSOpenPanel> let data = try url.bookmarkData(options: [.withSecurityScope], includingResourceValuesForKeys: nil, relativeTo: nil) <persistently store data> Update to macOS 14.7.5 Resolve the previously stored bookmark: let data: Data = <restore data from persistent storage> var stale: Bool = true let url = try URL(resolvingBookmarkData: data, options: [.withSecurityScope], relativeTo: nil, bookmarkDataIsStale: &stale) Expected: The bookmark is resolved correctly and the resulting url can be used to access the folder/file in the sandboxed app after starting access. Observed: URL(resolvingBookmarkData:) throws an error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=259 "The file couldn’t be opened because it isn’t in the correct format." New security scoped bookmarks created on macOS 14.5.7 can be resolved without issue. The same appears to happen with macOS 13.7.5. Entitlements: com.apple.security.app-sandbox com.apple.security.files.bookmarks.app-scope com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write This is very disruptive, as it appears that Sandboxed apps cannot access any previously stored bookmarks anymore. Particularly after the recent ScopedBookmarkAgent issues in 14.7.1 and 15.0, which were resolved in 14.7.3/15.1 respectively: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/764435

Take a look at this simple code: import Cocoa import SwiftUI struct DemoView: View { var body: some View { Text("Click me!") .onTapGesture { print("Clicked") } } } class FlippedView: NSView { override var isFlipped: Bool { return true } } class ViewController: NSViewController { override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let stackView = NSStackView() stackView.orientation = .vertical stackView.alignment = .leading stackView.spacing = 0 stackView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false let hostView = NSHostingView(rootView: DemoView()) stackView.addArrangedSubview(hostView) let scrollView = NSScrollView() scrollView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false let flippedView = FlippedView() flippedView.addSubview(stackView) scrollView.documentView = flippedView view.addSubview(scrollView) NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ scrollView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor), scrollView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor), scrollView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor), scrollView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor), ]) } } I need my scroll view to start at the very top, so i put it inside a flipped document view. But now .onTapGesture does not fire.

Hi, I'm trying to make a weather menu bar app, and I want to have it so that the icon of the app in the menu changes with the actual weather, but the icon isn't showing up. There is still a space in the menu bar where I can click and open the app, it's just that the icon has disappeared. Any ideas to fix it?

I have an app with two file types with the following extensions: gop (an exported type), sgf (an imported type). The Save command fails after the following sequence of events: I open a gop file, say the file "A.gop". I save this file as an sgf file, say "A.sgf". This Save As works perfectly and the document name in the document’s title bar has changed to "A.sgf". I change something in the document and then try to Save this change. This should just resave the document to "A.sgf", but "A.sgf" remains untouched. Instead I get a system alert with the message The document “A.sgf” could not be saved. A file with the name “A.gop” already exists. To save the file, either provide a different name, or move aside or delete the existing file, and try again. In the Xcode console I get the following diagnostic: NSFileSandboxingRequestRelatedItemExtension: an error was received from pboxd instead of a token. Domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: 2 [NSFileCoordinator itemAtURL:willMoveToURL:] could not get a sandbox extension. oldURL: file:///Users/francois/Desktop/A.sgf, newURL: file:///Users/francois/Desktop/A.gop The problem seems to relate to the sandbox. But I am at a loss to find a solution. (After closing the alert, I check that A.sgf did not register the change.) If I open an sgf file, say "B.sgf", save it as "B.gop", make a change in the document and then try to save this change (into "B.gop"), I hit the same problem, with "gop" and "sgf" interchanged. If, instead of saving "A.gop" as "A.sgf", I save it as "B.sgf", make a change in the document and then try to save this change into "B.sgf", I get the following system alert: The document “B.sgf” could not be saved. You don’t have permission. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File &gt; Get Info. And in the Xcode console I get the following diagnostic: NSFileSandboxingRequestRelatedItemExtension: an error was received from pboxd instead of a token. Domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: 2 [NSFileCoordinator itemAtURL:willMoveToURL:] could not get a sandbox extension. oldURL: file:///Users/francois/Desktop/B.sgf, newURL: file:///Users/francois/Desktop/B.gop Again the sandbox ! (After closing the alert, I check that B.sgf did not register the change.) It’s clear my code is missing something, but what?

I'm trying to update my app to use TextKit 2. The one thing that I'm still not sure about is how I can get the selection frame. My app uses it to auto-scroll the text to keep the cursor at the same height when the text wraps onto a new line or a newline is manually inserted. Currently I'm using NSLayoutManager.layoutManager!.boundingRect(forGlyphRange:in:). The code below almost works. When editing the text or changing the selection, the current selection frame is printed out. My expectation is that the selection frame after a text or selection change should be equal to the selection frame before the next text change. I've noticed that this is not always true when the text has a NSParagraphStyle with spacing > 0. As long as I type at the end of the text, everything's fine, but if I insert some lines, then move the selection somewhere into the middle of the text and insert another newline, the frame printed after manually moving the selection is different than the frame before the newline is inserted. It seems that the offset between the two frames is exactly the same as the paragraph style's spacing. Instead when moving the selection with the arrow key the printed frames are correct. I've filed FB17104954. class ViewController: NSViewController, NSTextViewDelegate { private var textView: NSTextView! override func loadView() { let scrollView = NSScrollView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 400)) textView = NSTextView(frame: scrollView.frame) textView.autoresizingMask = [.width, .height] textView.delegate = self let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle() paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 40 textView.typingAttributes = [.foregroundColor: NSColor.labelColor, .paragraphStyle: paragraphStyle] scrollView.documentView = textView scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true view = scrollView } func textView(_ textView: NSTextView, shouldChangeTextIn affectedCharRange: NSRange, replacementString: String?) -> Bool { print("before", selectionFrame.maxY, selectionFrame) return true } func textDidChange(_ notification: Notification) { print("after ", selectionFrame.maxY, selectionFrame) } func textViewDidChangeSelection(_ notification: Notification) { print("select", selectionFrame.maxY, selectionFrame) } var selectionFrame: CGRect { guard let selection = textView.textLayoutManager!.textSelections.first?.textRanges.first else { return .null } var frame = CGRect.null textView.textLayoutManager!.ensureLayout(for: selection) textView.textLayoutManager!.enumerateTextSegments(in: selection, type: .selection, options: [.rangeNotRequired]) { _, rect, _, _ in frame = rect return false } return frame } }

Hello, is there a way to implement Continuity Markup in our own apps? (This is what I'm talking about: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102269 , scroll down to "Use Continuity Markup"). Also, why does a QuickLook panel (QLPreviewPanel.shared()) not display the markup options when triggered from my app for png image files in my app's Group Container? Do I need to implement certain NSServicesMenuRequestor methods for that? Sadly, I could not find any docs on that. Thank you, – Matthias

To get menubar size, we can call. let menuBarHeight = NSStatusBar.system.thickness That is returning 24 and it is the same as my external screen. I did command + shift + 5 and use the screen capture tool to rougly measure the size of menubar. It is roughly 24px. However, for my macbook pro 14 inches m2 pro. The menubar seem thicker because of the webcam. Is there a way to find out the size in Swift?

All the threads only contain system calls. The crashed thread only contains a single call to my app's code which is main.swift:13. What could cause such a crash? crash.crash

It seems that NSTextView has an issue with deleting text and setting any attribute at the same time, when it also has a textContainerInset. With the code below, after 1 second, the empty line in the text view is automatically deleted and the first line is colored red. The top part of the last line remains visible at its old position. Selecting the whole text and then deselecting it again makes the issue disappear. Is there a workaround? I've created FB16897003. class ViewController: NSViewController { @IBOutlet var textView: NSTextView! override func viewDidAppear() { textView.textContainerInset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 8) let _ = textView.layoutManager textView.textStorage!.setAttributedString(NSAttributedString(string: "1\n\n2\n3\n4")) textView.textStorage!.addAttribute(.foregroundColor, value: NSColor.labelColor, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: textView.textStorage!.length)) DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1) { [self] in textView.selectedRange = NSRange(location: 3, length: 0) textView.deleteBackward(nil) textView.textStorage!.beginEditing() textView.textStorage!.addAttribute(.foregroundColor, value: NSColor.red, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: 2)) textView.textStorage!.endEditing() } } }

Environment: • macOS: Sequoia 15.3.2 • Xcode: 16.2 • Framework: AppKit (Objective-C) Issue: When programmatically setting the first responder to an NSSecureTextField shortly after its containing window loads or becomes key, a visual anomaly intermittently occurs (roughly 50% of the time). A semi-transparent UI element—likely related to the system’s Keychain password suggestion/autofill feature—appears detached from the text field. Instead of anchoring to the field, it renders elsewhere on the screen. I found similar issues discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74220070/strange-transparent-view-appears-beneath-textfield-in-mac-catalyst-app https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73277582/swiftui-view-with-textfield-and-securefield-buggy-on-macos-shows-strange-view/73615876#73615876 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/708075

My assumption has always been that [NSApp runModalForWindow:] runs a modal window in NSModalPanelRunLoopMode. However, while -[NSApplication _doModalLoop:peek:] seems to use NSModalPanelRunLoopMode when pulling out the next event to process via nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:, the current runloop doesn't seem to be running in that mode, so during -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] of the modal-specific event, NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop.currentMode returns kCFRunLoopDefaultMode. From what I can tell, this means that any event processing code that e.g. uses [NSTimer addTimer:forMode:] based on the current mode will register a timer that will not fire until the modal session ends. Is this a bug? Or if not, is the correct way to run a modal session something like this? [NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop performInModes:@[NSModalPanelRunLoopMode] block:^{ [NSApp runModalForWindow:window]; }]; [NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop limitDateForMode:NSModalPanelRunLoopMode]; Alternatively, if the mode of the runloop should stay the same, I've seen suggestions to run modal sessions like this: NSModalSession session = [NSApp beginModalSessionForWindow:theWindow]; for (;;) { if ([NSApp runModalSession:session] != NSModalResponseContinue) break; [NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop limitDateForMode:NSModalPanelRunLoopMode]; } [NSApp endModalSession:session]; Which would work around the fact that the timer/callbacks were scheduled in the "wrong" mode. But running NSModalPanelRunLoopMode during a modal session seems a bit scary. Won't that potentially break the modality?

Pasting either plain or styled text into any TextEditor results in a memory leak. import SwiftUI struct EditorView: View { @State private var inputText: String = "" var body: some View { VStack{ TextEditor(text: $inputText) .frame(minHeight: 150) } } }

I have a NSRulerView with a vertical orientation. It works fine from macOS 10.13 to 11.x. In macOS Monterey (12.2.1 here), the ruler view is not receiving drawHashMarksAndLabelsInRect: messages when the associated NSTextView is scrolled vertically. When the parent NSScrollView is resized, the ruler view is correctly refreshed on all macOS versions. [Q] Is it a known bug in macOS Monterey?

Consider the code from my previous question: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/776592 How can I change the background color of a focused item?

In macOS 15.4 (24E5238a) and Xcode 16.2, the NSStatus images appear to be missing. To reproduce, add an NSImageView to a Nib or StoryBoard and set the default image to any of the NSStatus images: NSStatusAvailable, NSStatusPartiallyAvailable, etc. Instead of the expected Green, Yellow dots, no image is displayed. The same occurs when setting images programatically. Is the plan to remove these images, or is this just temporary?

In some places of our app we make use of NSAccessibilityElement subclasses to vend some extra items to accessibility clients. We need to know which item has the VoiceOver focus so we can keep track of it. setAccessibilityFocused: does not get called when accessibility clients focus NSAccessibilityElements. This method is only called when accessibility clients focus view-based accessibility elements (i.e. when a NSView subclass gets focused). At the same time we need to programmatically move VoiceOver focus to those items when something happens. Those accessibility elements inherit from NSObject so we can't make them first responder. Is this the expected behavior? What are our options in terms of reacting to VoiceOver cursor moving around? What are our options in terms of programmatically moving the VoiceOver cursor to a different element? Here's a sample project that demonstrates the first part of the issue: https://github.com/vendruscolo/apple-rdars/tree/master/DTS12368714%20-%20NSAccessibilityElement%20focus%20tracking If you run the app, a window will show up. It contains a button and a red square. If you enable VoiceOver you'll be able to move the cursor over the red square, and a message will be logged. You'll also notice there's an extra element after the red square. That element is available to VoiceOver, however when it gets focuses, no message gets logged.

Hi, I have noticed a major uptick in crash reports, ever since I updated my app for macOS Sequoia. All of them have to do with NSOutlineView, and they all have a similar internal API in the crash log, which shows that the issue is something to do with the framework. They all have references to NSConcreteMapTable and _TtCs12_SwiftObject isEqual. The issue isn't reproducible, but it's reported by many different users, all on macOS15+, and it was never an issue with macOS14 or below, so I'm not sure what to do about it. Here's a couple of examples of the new crash reports: Date/Time: 2024-10-29T06:55:19.999Z Launch Time: 2024-10-29T06:50:08Z OS Version: Mac OS X 15.0.1 (24A348) Report Version: 104 Exception Type: SIGTRAP Exception Codes: TRAP_BRKPT at 0x1a98c9c90 Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libswiftCore.dylib 0x00000001a98c9c90 -[_TtCs12_SwiftObject isEqual:] + 240 1 Foundation 0x0000000199ad4e0c probeGC + 408 2 Foundation 0x0000000199b01e6c -[NSConcreteMapTable removeObjectForKey:] + 76 3 AppKit 0x000000019c5966a8 _NSOVFreeRowEntry + 44 4 AppKit 0x000000019c5965c4 _NSOVRecursiveFreeChildrenAndItem + 100 5 AppKit 0x000000019c59649c _NSOVFastRemoveChildRowEntries + 260 6 AppKit 0x000000019c595d40 -[NSOutlineView reloadItem:reloadChildren:] + 1016 7 MyApp 0x0000000104b454fc CJ_CRM.MacCJSidebarViewController.compareContactsDictionariesForPublicGroups() -> () (MacCJSidebarViewController.swift:1611) 8 MyApp 0x0000000104b44518 $s20MyApp26MacCJSidebarViewControllerC27contactsChangedNotificationyySo14NSNotificationCFySo7NSTimerCYbcfU_ (MacCJSidebarViewController.swift:461) 9 MyApp 0x0000000104ba5310 $sSo7NSTimerCIeghg_ABIeyBhy_TR (<compiler-generated>:0) 10 Foundation 0x0000000199b64cfc __NSFireTimer + 100 11 CoreFoundation 0x0000000198988184 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 28 12 CoreFoundation 0x0000000198987e28 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 1008 13 CoreFoundation 0x0000000198987938 __CFRunLoopDoTimers + 352 14 CoreFoundation 0x000000019896d0f0 __CFRunLoopRun + 1852 15 CoreFoundation 0x000000019896c334 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 568 16 HIToolbox 0x00000001a3da50cc RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 288 17 HIToolbox 0x00000001a3daaebc ReceiveNextEventCommon + 632 18 HIToolbox 0x00000001a3dab020 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 72 19 AppKit 0x000000019c4b0a70 _DPSNextEvent + 656 20 AppKit 0x000000019cdd67b8 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 684 21 AppKit 0x000000019c4a3b7c -[NSApplication run] + 476 22 AppKit 0x000000019c47a44c NSApplicationMain + 884 23 MyApp 0x0000000104a1e26c main (main.m:24) 24 ??? 0x0000000198504274 0x0 + 0 Another one with a different trigger but same internal API: Date/Time: 2024-10-29T16:49:12.999Z Launch Time: 2024-10-29T15:51:27Z OS Version: Mac OS X 15.1 (24B83) Report Version: 104 Exception Type: SIGSEGV Exception Codes: SEGV_MAPERR at 0x4cde11282080 Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libswiftCore.dylib 0x00000001a04efa1c isSubclass(swift::TargetMetadata<swift::InProcess> const*, swift::TargetMetadata<swift::InProcess> const*) + 28 1 libswiftCore.dylib 0x00000001a04ef9f8 _swift_class_isSubclass + 12 2 libswiftCore.dylib 0x00000001a04ffa9c -[_TtCs12_SwiftObject isEqual:] + 252 3 Foundation 0x00000001906b4cec probeGC + 408 4 Foundation 0x00000001906b4adc -[NSConcreteMapTable objectForKey:] + 64 5 AppKit 0x00000001930f8eec -[NSOutlineView _rowEntryForItem:requiredRowEntryLoadMask:] + 48 6 AppKit 0x00000001930f8e80 -[NSOutlineView parentForItem:] + 24 7 MyApp 0x0000000100e2faec MyApp.MacCJSidebarViewController.outlineView(_: __C.NSOutlineView, selectionIndexesForProposedSelection: Foundation.IndexSet) -> Foundation.IndexSet (MacCJSidebarViewController.swift:759) 8 MyApp 0x0000000100e30dbc @objc MyApp.MacCJSidebarViewController.outlineView(_: __C.NSOutlineView, selectionIndexesForProposedSelection: Foundation.IndexSet) -> Foundation.IndexSet (<compiler-generated>:0) 9 AppKit 0x000000019324c4e4 -[NSTableView _userSelectableRowIndexesForProposedSelection:userCanAlreadyChangeSelection:] + 288 10 AppKit 0x00000001933176c4 -[NSTableView _userSelectRowIndexes:withNewSelectedRow:] + 140 11 AppKit 0x00000001933175a0 -[NSTableView _userSelectSingleRow:] + 76 12 AppKit 0x0000000193315c8c -[NSTableView mouseDown:] + 2536 13 AppKit 0x0000000193315120 -[NSOutlineView mouseDown:] + 72 14 MyApp 0x0000000100dabb38 -[CustomNSOutlineView mouseDown:] (CustomNSOutlineView.m:180) 15 AppKit 0x000000019320d98c forwardMethod + 248 16 AppKit 0x000000019320d98c forwardMethod + 248 17 AppKit 0x0000000193213518 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _handleMouseDownEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 3668 18 AppKit 0x000000019319f00c -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 380 19 AppKit 0x000000019319ecbc -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 280 20 AppKit 0x00000001939b6bf0 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 1652 21 AppKit 0x00000001935c489c -[NSApplication _handleEvent:] + 56 22 AppKit 0x000000019306ab08 -[NSApplication run] + 516 23 AppKit 0x0000000193041364 NSApplicationMain + 884 24 MyApp 0x0000000100d0626c main (main.m:24) 25 ??? 0x000000018f0e4274 0x0 + 0 I just created a Feedback FB15625970. Please let me know if this is a known issue, and/or if there's any ideas out there on how I can do to avoid this. It's causing a lot of instability in my app, that wasn't there before macOS15, so something changed in the internal APIs, and hopefully there's a way to work around it.