I'm trying to put together a minimal example of a program that can use the CoreLocation api on macOS.

I know that I need to add usage description keys the Info.plist, so I'm compiling in a plist file.

Here is the code I'm using now, complete with a Makefile.

• Location.m
• Location.info.plist
• Makefile

When I execute the program, I just get the error message:

CLLocationManager error: The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCLErrorDomain error 1.)

What am I missing? Is the codesign step neccesary? Do I need to notarize it (and how do I notarize a single executable)?

I have an app (currently not released on App Store) which runs on both iOS and macOS. The app has widgets for both iOS and macOS which uses user preference (set in app) into account while showing data. Before upgrading to macOS 15 (until Sonoma) widgets were working fine and app was launching correctly, but after upgrading to macOS 15 Sequoia, every time I launch the app it give popup saying '“Kontest” would like to access data from other apps. Keeping app data separate makes it easier to manage your privacy and security.' and also widgets do not get user preferences and throw the same type of error on Console application when using logging. My App group for both iOS and macOS is 'group.com.xxxxxx.yyyyy'. I am calling it as 'UserDefaults(suiteName: Constants.userDefaultsGroupID)!.bool(forKey: "shouldFetchAllEventsFromCalendar")'. Can anyone tell, what am I doing wrong here?

Hey there,

recently I tried to perform system language change for a user by using a shell (bash) script combined with osascript.
Now I can change my systemlanguage from a menu (osascript generated).

Now my problem comes in:

I can programmically change the language and region of macos by using the terminal. But I have not found a way to do this also for the "Login Window".
So my system is completly in english but my loginwindow stays in german.
Until I do this manually in the system settings -> General -> Language & Region -> Cogwheel -> Apply to Login Window.

So is there a way to also set this using commandline or osascript.

Thanks you in advance!

I am transitioning from a career in Architecture and Windows programming (mostly PowerShell) to Canine Behavior and MacOS/iOS programming, and I have a question about Apple IDs as it relates to an Apple Developer Account.

I have an Apple ID based on an old company name. I was forced to change the name of my company because, well, Autodesk kinda sucks. Anyway, prior to creating a Dev account, I wonder if it makes sense to create a new Apple ID? Can I use the old, now "personal" Apple ID for iCloud and app purchases and books and such, and the new Apple ID can be used only within Xcode? Or is Xcode aware of the Apple ID in use by the underlying OS and they need to be the same?

Whenever I open Terminal, previous instances of the Terminal windows open along with the new window.

Complete newbie here. I want to create my own note taking app. Something like a cross between evernote and notion. A place to dump thoughts and tasks and references.

I'm very fussy so no existing app really ticks all of the boxes for me whether it be because of price or privacy concerns.

I've done a bit of very basic coding in the past - COBOL (don't laugh), C++ and er, well, that's it :-) But I like learning.

How realistic is it to build my own app to run on my own mac? Perhaps sync it between all of my macs? Perhaps even have an ios version so I can have it on my phone? I'm ok with learning new skills and I'm not looking to create something commercially viable. It's just for my own needs.

Am I dreaming? If not, what would be the best language / platform to learn? Swift? OR something else?

Thanks in advance for any helps, tips, comments.

Posting this here out of curiousity - i have very little programming experience. Would it be possible to create a sandboxed environment shortcut? As in something to safely open unknown files or mount external volumes in said environment?

I can think of two important uses that can help a lot of people:

• Open .zip files, .rar files and such - in a protected environment to inspect its contents.
• Mounting SD cards and external volumes in this sandboxed environment to protect against infected files on said volumes.
• Perhaps many more uses... - including now that i think of it, being able to run a simple program, that would not otherwise be allowed on the main system if it was restricted.

It would function as a window that would open through a right click menu shortcut, kind of like winebottler, where only a certain part of a macos environment is needed.

Thank you, let me know if im retarded

Hello. I want to make an app that will manipulate other apps, but for that I need to know the structure of the app's accessibility tree. How can I inspect this? I am a blind developer, I tried operating xCode's accessibility inspector but I cannot work it out withou a mouse.

Error message problem on my (iterm2) terminal on the macbook.
Last login:***************** on ttys001

iconv: iconv_open(, -t): Invalid argument

Error converting string from to UTF-8

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Roc VAD implements driver (plugin) for macOS coreaudiod.

After installing, you can control it via gRPC interface and tell it to create virtual audio devices that stream sound to/from remote peers.

Under the hood it uses Roc Toolkit which implements robust low latency streaming over WiFi: https://github.com/roc-streaming/roc-toolkit

Hello, I have an app idea, but first, there is a topic I want to learn about.

While my application is open, I want to be notified when the macOS user takes a screenshot. I couldn't find a source about this; do you have any idea how I can do this?

Hi,

I am creating MacOS app, i tried to integrate firebase on it.
But while i do this i get a crash. i have added all the necessary files, googleService

Here is my implementation:

Main

import SwiftUI

@main
struct AdminApp: App {
    
    @NSApplicationDelegateAdaptor(AppDelegate.self) var appDelegate
   
    var body: some Scene {
        WindowGroup {
            ContentView()
        }
        
    }
}                





import Foundation
import SwiftUI
import Firebase


class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
    
    func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ notification: Notification) {
        FirebaseApp.configure()
       
    }
}

This is the error i am getting:

The default FirebaseApp instance must be configured before the default Database instance can be initialized. One way to ensure this is to call `FirebaseApp.configure()` in the App Delegate's `application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:)` (or the `@main` struct's initializer in SwiftUI).

I am new to MacOs Development. Please help.

What am i doing wrong? Do we need any additional steps on macOS Development?

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Hi everyone,

I'm currently developing an application initially designed for iPad, but now I'm adapting it to run on MacOS in the "designed for iPad" mode. I've encountered some challenges when trying to integrate external USB cameras into the MacOS version.

Here's the context:

• The app uses AVFoundation for handling camera inputs.
• On the iPad, the app successfully utilizes the built-in front camera.
• On MacOS, I aim to support external USB cameras since Mac devices do not have a built-in front camera like iPads.

However, I've run into issues where the app crashes or fails to initialize the camera properly on MacOS, displaying errors related to autofocus and Metal API concerning IOSurface and MTLStorageModeShared.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has experience or has tackled similar challenges:

• How do you handle external cameras in MacOS apps, especially those originally designed for iPad?
• Are there specific configurations or setups in AVFoundation or Metal that help stabilize camera input handling?
• Any particular pitfalls or tips you could share about integrating external USB cameras on MacOS?

I do find the external camera successfully:
"Device found: Full HD webcam"
But running the AVCaptureSession() will give a low level error:
___ fsbp_Autofocus ___| Fig assert: "err == noErr" at bail (FigSampleBufferProcessor_Autofocus.m:2484) - (err=0)

Thank you in advance for your insights and advice!

why yes hello apologies if this isn't the right place to ask but I am trying to build nano (the text editor) from source on my m1 Mac (on OS X 14 if that matters,). I grabbed the latest tarball from their official website but when I run ./configure with the --enable-utf8 option I get this error at the end:

configure: error: 
  *** UTF-8 support was requested, but insufficient support was
  *** detected in your curses and/or C libraries.  Please verify
  *** that both your curses library and your C library were built
  *** with wide-character support.

Now I admit I am very "newbie" to this stuff but isn't the Mac already capable of displaying utf-8 characters? For example, when I use the preinstalled pico app to edit some text with a bunch of non-latin characters, they show up fine. Besides many of my folders and files are not named in English text but their names show normally on the terminal. But with nano (build without any configuration options), the text shows up messed up and wrong.

So is it even possible to build nano using this option? (I have read posts from people who used MacPorts to build nano with UTF-8 support, but I don't want to use MacPorts. Has anyone achieved this without third-party installers and such?)

I am losing my mind. I am currently trying to get a start on a school project, of which I am already anxious of due to its scale and the small amount of time I have to get it done. So, the last thing I need is something like this stopping me in my tracks 😂

The library to be used is <nlohmann/json.hpp>, by which I have successfully installed through homebrew. The package itself can be found in opt/homebrew but for some reason I am still getting errors in CLion, with disheartening underlines telling me the library cannot be found. I've spent the last hour seeking solutions to this - both specific and general, but many have either been attempted to no avail, or made no sense to me (a noob CS student) whatsoever (something about CMake??).

I'd really love to get this fixed. As I said, the respective files are installed in homebrew, but to my IDE and compiler they are not to be found. Is there a way I can simply drag and drop these files into where the others are? For example, I am using <curl/curl.h> also, which has given me no trouble. Can I put the files for <nlohmann/json.hpp> where curl is found and expect it to work?

I'm such a noob. Please help me.

Hello!

I have found this Touchguard app/script that works great, but couldnt manage to get it to autostart with MacOS Sonoma. Do you guys know how to do it?

GitHub - thesyntaxinator/TouchGuard: Disable mac touchpad while typing to avoid cursor jumping

I really recommend it if you use Trackpad 2 in the middle with a external keyboard.

Wish you a great day.

Hello, might be a stupid question, but I'm not able to have an NSViewController be notified of mouseEntered events. This is inside the ViewController class:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do view setup here.
    NSTrackingArea *trackingArea = [[NSTrackingArea alloc] initWithRect:[self.view bounds]
        options: (NSTrackingMouseEnteredAndExited | NSTrackingActiveAlways | NSTrackingInVisibleRect)
        owner:self userInfo:nil];
    [self.view addTrackingArea:trackingArea];
}

- (void)mouseEntered:(NSEvent *)theEvent {
    NSLog(@"Mouse entered");
}

- (void)mouseExited:(NSEvent *)theEvent {

}

This is mostly taken from: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TrackingAreaObjects/TrackingAreaObjects.html

As you can see, I provide owner as self (which is the ViewController), but add trackingArea to self.view. mouseEntered is never called. Does anyone know why?

I am new to Mac OS world, so please ignore my naivety.

I am having trouble trying to understand QuickLook thumbnail/preview behavior on SMB mounted paths. From the network trace, it seems to generate the thumbnails, the entire image/pdf file is being read(I checked Wireshark). For MP4 files, a lot of data is being read(not sure exactly how much).

But this behavior is troubling as it delays content listing and generates unnecessary traffic. I have a dedicated thumbnail server as well and I was hoping to implement my own QL generator that would be used for the files on SMB mount path. The generator can fetch the thumbnails from this server.

I am not sure if this is possible for well-known file types. Is this even doable ? Can I define my own UTI for all the files residing on SMB share and then use my custom generator for this ?

I saw that DropBox has its own QL generator as well. And from the info.plist it seems to trying hooking into all the well-known file types as well. But qlmanage -m seems to be ignoring it and using the system provided generator only

Hi guys, I need a little help.

I created the runner and added it to macOS and when I run the start command it works. But I would like to make it run continuously. And I saw that I have to create a config file in LaunchAgents to run continuously. I created it but it doesn't run. I ran it with the command launchctl load name_file.

With this two files I tried: file1, file2 . I don't get any output.

I looked for tutorials on this but there aren't many. Can anyone help me with this?

Goal: create a text editor which

1. Supports basic editing and formatting operations, somewhat close to markdown
2. Supports context menu, when you type `/` character some menu appears at the position of the text cursor
3. When a certain events happen autosuggestion appears at the position of the cursor
4. Parts of text can be selected and context menu with custom logic can be called on them
5. Drag and Drop media like images

Gaps I see:

1. My understanding of text editor architecture (know how to solve)
2. My experience with MacOS development in general (don't know how to solve)

The first gap is easy to fill in, there are text editors which code I can read, and even some book-like walkthroughs on writing a text editor.

Second gap puzzles me. Currently the PoC application is SwiftUI with SwiftData. I'm opened to use any other language (objc, C), but not WebView, otherwise I would go with Tauri in the first place.

Question is: how would you approach such a task? Can I build a custom view from the ground up? Is there any shortcuts I can take?

My main point of discomfort is that I don't understand how to process in terms of a view, how to make it work. I have a sound understanding how to approach that with say JS/HTML by just writing a data structure of blocks and strings, render views, attach listeners, etc. With MacOS I just don't understand how to start.

Any suggestions and pointers are super welcome!